Kathryn Hughes

Seven Years’ War

John Banville

Sympathy for the Bedevilled

The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother

By Ulinka Rublack

Adam LeBor

The Swedish Schindler

Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography

By Ingrid Carlberg (Translated by Ebba Segerberg)

Donald Trelford

From Cliveden to Fleet Street

David Astor: A Life in Print

By Jeremy Lewis

Dominic Green

The Predatory Tense

Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock’n’Roll Underworld

By Keiron Pim

Gavin Stamp

Airbrushing the Past

The Ministry of Nostalgia

By Owen Hatherley

Jonathan Mirsky

Girls Allowed

China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

By Kay Ann Johnson

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

By Mei Fong

Jonathan Keates

Treasure Everywhere

The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon

By Annemarie Jordan Gschwend & K J P Lowe (ed)

Charles Allen

From Gautama to Gandhi

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives

By Sunil Khilnani

John Sweeney

Prisoners of Pyongyang

The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project

By Robert S Boynton

Charles Saumarez Smith

Painting the Past

Art in Britain 1660–1815

By David H Solkin

Paul Johnson

A Portrait of the Artist

Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings

By Edgar Peters Bowron

William St Clair

Curatorial Quandaries

Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums … and Why They Should Stay There

By Tiffany Jenkins

Jonathan Sumption

Reign of the Usurper

Henry IV

By Chris Given-Wilson

John Keay

Bose & Arrows

India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939–1945

By Srinath Raghavan

Geoffrey Roberts

Everyday Stalinists

On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Richard Overy

Last Words

Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933–49

By David Cesarani

Alex Von Tunzelmann

Rebel Music

1956: The World in Revolt

By Simon Hall

Tim Stanley

Lives of Others

History’s People: Personalities and the Past

By Margaret MacMillan

Matthew Green

Facing Terror

Hunting Season: The Execution of James Foley, Islamic State, and the Real Story of the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War

By James Harkin

The New Threat from Islamic Militancy

By Jason Burke

Allan Massie

The Thistle Blooms

Independence or Union: Scotland’s Past and Scotland’s Present

By T M Devine

Martin Vander Weyer

‘The Audacity of Pessimism’

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy

By Mervyn King

Jan Morris

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Heroic Failure and the British

By Stephanie Barczewski

Caroline Moorehead

Glossed in Translation

In Other Words

By Jhumpa Lahiri (Translated by Ann Goldstein)

Sara Wheeler

Shine On

Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights

By Melanie Windridge

Ben Hamilton

Screen Saviour

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

By A O Scott

Christena Appleyard

Past Participants

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

Love Like Salt: A Memoir

By Helen Stevenson

Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter

By Diana Athill

Frank Brinkley

All Play and No Work

Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline

By Simon Parkin

Tom Mustill

Big Game Photographer

The Shark and the Albatross: Travels with a Camera to the Ends of the Earth

By John Aitchison

Patrick Hennessey

Right of the Bang

Anatomy of a Soldier

By Harry Parker

Joanna Kavenna

Tripping the Circuits

Martin John

By Anakana Schofield

Sam Kitchener

I’ll Be Watching You

Memoirs of a Stalker

By Thomas W Hodgkinson

Perfect Days

By Raphael Montes (Translated by Alison Entrekin)

John Dugdale

Cruel to Be Kind

Cruel to Be Kind

By Javier Marías (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

David Renton

The Graduates

Freya

By Anthony Quinn

Philip Maughan

And So On

Some Rain Must Fall (My Struggle: Book 5)

By Karl Ove Knausgaard (Translated by Don Bartlett)

Jude Cook

The Artist as a Young Woman

Mothering Sunday: A Romance

By Graham Swift

Lindsay Duguid

Shocks to the System

Under the Rose: Selected Stories

By Julia O’Faolain

Laura Gallagher

Percy’s Progress

Sweetgirl

By Travis Mulhauser

Imogen Russell Williams

Bull’s in Your Court

The Double Axe

By Philip Womack

Stephen Bates

Arsenic in the Curry

The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder

By Linda Stratmann