Frances Wilson

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Donald Rayfield

The Monk behind the Myth

Rasputin

By Douglas Smith

Jonathan Meades

Inside Job

A Life in Questions

By Jeremy Paxman

Lucy Moore

A Life Less Ordinary

Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard

By Stephen Taylor

Robert Bickers

What’s in a Name?

Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook

By Matt Houlbrook

Dominic Green

And the Beat Goes On

Born to Run

By Bruce Springsteen

Richard Bourke

Rational Selections

The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

By Anthony Gottlieb

Tom Stern

Rooms with a View

Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

By Stuart Jeffries

Justin Beplate

Coming out of the Coffin

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

By David J Skal

Richard Canning

Onward & Sideways

Edward Upward: Art and Life

By Peter Stansky

Stoddard Martin

Every Woman for Herself

Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means – A Biography

By Brendan King

Seamus Perry

Thrill of the Chase

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

By Richard Holmes

Andrew Gallix

The Making of Meursault

Looking for 'The Outsider': Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

By Alice Kaplan

Robin Oakley

A Rough Ride

The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History

By Susanna Forrest

Richard Smyth

Bird’s-Eye Viewing

Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics

By James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti

Charles Elliott

Green Fingers

Lives of the Great Gardeners

By Stephen Anderton

Bernard Porter

No Man is an Island

Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940–45

By Gilly Carr, Paul Sanders & Louise Willmot

Patrick Scrivenor

Voice from the Western Front

From Eton to Ypres: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914–15

By Charles Abel Smith (ed)

John Man

Obscure Empires Brought to Light

The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols

By Christoph Baumer (Translated by Martina Dervis & Dafydd Roberts)

Anthony Kenny

Across the Great Divide

Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650

By Carlos M N Eire

James Howard-Johnston

Conjuring up the Past

Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman

By Minoo Dinshaw

Robert Chesshyre

Living at the End of a Barrel

Another Day in the Death of America

By Gary Younge

David Patrikarakos

Progression through Regression

Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea

By Shiraz Maher

Valerie Grove

Line Management

How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

By Richard Cohen

Allan Massie

Border Patrol

The Marches: Border Walks with My Father

By Rory Stewart

Jonathan Mirsky

Invasive Procedures

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

By Luke Dittrich

Manjit Kumar

Clocking On

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time

By Simon Garfield

Nigel Andrew

Box Clever

Television: A Biography

By David Thomson

Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook

By Clive James

Robert J Mayhew

Mapping the Past

The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present

By Nicholas Crane

Andrew Crumey

Whither Woodville?

Wonders Will Never Cease

By Robert Irwin

Pamela Norris

On the Brink

The Dark Flood Rises

By Margaret Drabble

Cressida Connolly

Closing Time

Autumn

By Ali Smith

Houman Barekat

When the Music Stops

Swing Time

By Zadie Smith

Jude Cook

Road to Nowhere

Private Citizens

By Tony Tulathimutte

Tom Williams

Here I Stand

A Horse Walks into a Bar

By David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen)

Miranda France

Age Shall Not Weary Them

The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories

By Penelope Lively

Ian Critchley

In the Sanatorium

The Dark Circle

By Linda Grant