Nicholas Murray

All Shall Win Prizes

Donald Rayfield

One Shift in the Life of…

The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard

By Ivan Chistyakov (Translated by Arch Tait)

Alison Flood

Hitting the Jackpot

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

By Ruth Franklin

Tom Fort

Fish out of Water

The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, Forgotten Hero of Natural History

By Richard Girling

Philip Parker

Uneasy Lies the Head…

Athelstan: The Making of England

By Tom Holland

Æthelred the Unready

By Levi Roach

Jessie Childs

Courting Disaster

Young & Damned & Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII

By Gareth Russell

Richard Overy

The Price of Peace

The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt

By Peter Clarke

Simon Heffer

Sea Changes

Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

By Jan Rüger

Saul David

Hearts of Darkness

Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa – 1830–1990

By Lawrence James

Nicholas Roe

Last Words

Deaths of the Poets

By Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts

Piers Brendon

Portrait of Pum

Gayer-Anderson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha

By Louise Foxcroft

Adrian Tinniswood

Roads Less Travelled

The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain’s Master Map Maker and His Secrets

By Alan Ereira

Ariane Bankes

An Artist for All Seasons

The Art of John Piper

By David Fraser Jenkins & Hugh Fowler-Wright

Kevin Jackson

Top Kat

Krazy: George Herriman – A Life in Black and White

By Michael Tisserand

Marek Kohn

Meme Streak

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

By Daniel C Dennett

Felicity Cloake

Sweetness & Blight

The Case Against Sugar

By Gary Taubes

Wendy Moore

Priming the Pump

Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

By Stephen Westaby

Robert Irwin

Stealing with Style

Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights

By Paulo Lemos Horta

Michael Burleigh

We, the People?

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

By John B Judis

John Sutherland

Body Language

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By Kathryn Hughes

Rebekah Higgitt

Queens of the Night

The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

By Dava Sobel

John Gribbin

Life on Mars?

Aliens: Science Asks – Is Anyone Out There?

By Jim Al-Khalili (ed)

All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life

By Jon Willis

Jonathan Mirsky

Communist Poster Boy

No Wall Too High

By Xu Hongci (Translated by Erling Hoh)

Mary Kenny

Joined at the Hip

The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border

By Garrett Carr

Adam Hopkins

Bullfight Detector

Footprints in Spain: British Lives in a Foreign Land

By Simon Courtauld

Roland Huntford

Off His Crocker

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

By David Welky

George Bernard

Reaching for the Heavens

Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England

By Julian Flannery

Keith Miller

Drawn & Quartered

4321

By Paul Auster

Judith Vidal-Hall

Heading for Disaster?

The Traitor's Niche

By Ismail Kadare (Translated by John Hodgson)

Claire Lowdon

Innocence Lost

Bad Dreams and Other Stories

By Tessa Hadley

Thomas Marks

Small-Town Scheherazade

Ashland & Vine

By John Burnside

Houman Barekat

Scene by Scene

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

By Kathleen Collins

Lucian Robinson

Clocking On

The Evenings

By Gerard Reve (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Jonathan Barnes

I Confess

Moonglow

By Michael Chabon

Philip Womack

Study of a Gyndagooster

Hame

By Annalena McAfee

William St Clair

From Accra to Alabama

Homegoing

By Yaa Gyasi