D J Taylor

‘He Wrote This Specially For Me’

Thomas Shippey

A Very Modern Viking

Cnut the Great

By Timothy Bolton

Donald Rayfield

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

David Gelber

The Woman Who Would Be King

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen

By Linda M Heywood

Gavin Weightman

Roads to Glory

Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain

By Julian Glover

Maria Margaronis

Roads to Rhodope

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By Kapka Kassabova

Roger Crowley

Micklegarth by Sea

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

By Bettany Hughes

Sara Wheeler

Conquistadors & Cubaneros

Havana: A Subtropical Dilemma

By Mark Kurlansky

John Gray

Terms of Engagement

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

By David Armitage

David Pryce-Jones

Shock and Awe

The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East

By Guy Laron

John Keay

Bristling with Raj

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

By Shashi Tharoor

Joe Moshenska

All Touchy-Feely

The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

By Carolyn Purnell

Adam LeBor

Blood Lines

A Crime in the Family

By Sacha Batthyány (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Dominic Green

Victorians in Togas

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity

By Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi (edd)

James Stourton

Oily Characters

Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art and Its Dealers

By Philip Hook

Andrew Lycett

A Case of Identity

Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

By Michael Sims

Jonathan Keates

He Dreamed a Dream

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

By David Bellos

Richard Canning

Anatomy of a Disease

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

By David France

Patrick Scrivenor

No Elephant in the Room

Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa

By Keith Somerville

Damian Thompson

Holy Trail

The Catholics: The Church and Its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day

By Roy Hattersley

Jonathan Meades

Words Fail Me

It’s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés

By Orin Hargraves

Joan Smith

Screen Surrender

Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching

By Adam Alter

Frances Wilson

Fatal Hat-traction

Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire

By Carol Dyhouse

William Palmer

Dad Land

Fathers

By Sam Miller

Fathers and Sons

By Howard Cunnell

The Old King in His Exile

By Arno Geiger (Translated by Stefan Tobler)

Maximilian Hildebrand

Pavilion Despot

Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy

By Charlie Campbell

Melanie White

Ars Longueur, Vita Brevis

A Line Made by Walking

By Sara Baume

Kevin Power

Lovers in the Doorway

Exit West

By Mohsin Hamid

Adrian Turpin

Doubting Thomas

In Extremis

By Tim Parks

Nick Holdstock

Boom Town

The Explosion Chronicles

By Yan Lianke (Translated by Carlos Rojas)

Lesley Downer

Pinball Wizened

Pachinko

By Min Jin Lee