Andrew Lownie

Access Denied

Robert Irwin

Eastern Promises

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

By Jerry Brotton

Adrian Tinniswood

Reason’s Season

The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

By A C Grayling

Caroline Moorehead

Farewell to Arms

Spain in our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

By Adam Hochschild

The Last Days of the Spanish Republic

By Paul Preston

William Doyle

Power to the People

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

By Peter McPhee

Adam Sisman

Enlightening Words

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian

By Blair Worden (ed)

Stoddard Martin

Son of Mann

Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

By Frederic Spotts

Dominic Green

The Prometheus of Modern Times

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father

By George Goodwin

D J Taylor

Sorrowing in Sunlight

Devoid of Shyness: From the Journal, 1926–1939

By Alan Pryce-Jones (Edited by John Byrne)

Benjamin Ivry

Major or Minor?

Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World

By Caroline Potter

William Robinson

Magic in Miniature

The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100–1900

By B N Goswamy

Paul Johnson

Career Spikes

Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist

By Nick Foulkes

Rupert Christiansen

Play It Again, Ma’am

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Gulliver Ralston

Beware the Shoe Removers

Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet

By Edward Dusinberre

Simon Rees

Hither & Zither

The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions

By Michael Church (ed)

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Tomorrow’s World

The Industries of the Future

By Alec Ross

Alan Ryan

Rise of the Middling Sort

Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

By Deirdre N McCloskey

Eric Kaufmann

Everyday People

The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives

By Helen Pearson

Gerald Butt

State of Unrest

The Egyptians: A Radical Story

By Jack Shenker

Isabella Tree

Unhappy Valley

Kathmandu

By Thomas Bell

Lesley Downer

In the Shadow of Fukushima

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Anthony Sattin

The End of the Silk Road

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

By Philip Mansel

Andrew Lycett

The Great Globe Itself

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Nigel Andrew

Making a Scene

Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places

By Anna Pavord

Rain: Four Walks in English Weather

By Melissa Harrison

Alberto Manguel

Simply Hideous

Ugliness: A Cultural History

By Gretchen E Henderson

Mike Jay

You Talking to Me?

The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves

By Charles Fernyhough

Gillian Tindall

Great Scott

Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott

By Gavin Stamp

John Gribbin

Half-Life Stories

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

By Timothy J Jorgensen

Louise Wilkinson

Menus of the Middle Ages

The Culture of Food in England 1200–1500

By C M Woolgar

Samantha Ellis

All By Myself

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By Olivia Laing

Alexander Waugh

Where There’s a Will There’s a Waugh

Francesca Wade

Modern Magic

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

By Helen Oyeyemi

David Jays

The Art of Embarrassment

Tales of Persuasion

By Philip Hensher

David Collard

Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Dodge Rose

By Jack Cox

Hannah Rosefield

Austen in Ohio

Eligible

By Curtis Sittenfeld

Anthony Cummins

Something Colourful, Something Black

Vertigo

By Joanna Walsh

Suzi Feay

Go-aan, me lad!

The Cauliflower®

By Nicola Barker

Charles Bailey

Growing Pains

The Children's Home

By Charles Lambert

Paul Bailey

Sofia Calling

What Belongs to You

By Garth Greenwell

Michael Eaude

Decline & Fall

Private Life

By Josep Maria de Sagarra (Translated by Mary Ann Newman)

Ben Hamilton

On Jack’s Back

Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of ‘Make Me’

By Andy Martin