Jerry Brotton

‘The Play’s the Thing’

Edward Vallance

Love Affair with God

Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World

By Alec Ryrie

Tanya Harrod

Life Imitating Art

The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John

By Rebecca John & Michael Holroyd (edd)

Kevin Jackson

Escape Artist

The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

By Joanna Moorhead

Shahidha Bari

Best Dressed

Clothing Art: The Visual Culture of Fashion, 1600–1914

By Aileen Ribeiro

John Edwards

Sovereign of the Seas

Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen

By Giles Tremlett

Alan Judd

Monkey Business

M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster

By Henry Hemming

Miranda Seymour

Palazzo Non Finito

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

By Judith Mackrell

Jonathan Beckman

For Queen & Company

London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City

By Stephen Alford

Allan Massie

Toxic Relations

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

By Holly Tucker

Paul Lay

Wrangling Radicals

The Leveller Revolution

By John Rees

Dominic Green

Urban Warfare

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

By Mike Rapport

Jane O’Grady

Grey Areas

Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery

By Henry Marsh

Libby Purves

Lifting the Curtain

Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre

By Nicholas Hytner

Joanna Kavenna

Troubled Waters

Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery

By Alys Fowler

Valerie Grove

His Family & Other Animals

The Durrells of Corfu

By Michael Haag

Mark Dunbar

Stings Like a Butterfly

The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship

By Alex Beam

Michael Burleigh

Anywheres & Somewheres

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

By David Goodhart

Laurence Brockliss

Higher Purposes

Speaking of Universities

By Stefan Collini

Jacob Cockcroft

Fair Share?

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

By Brad Stone

Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination

By Adam Lashinsky

Rupert Edis

Flight Paths

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

By Alexander Betts & Paul Collier

Rupert Christiansen

Listen Up

Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found

By Bella Bathurst

Richard Cockett

Press Gang

Mail Men: The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail

By Adrian Addison

Adrian Nathan West

Eastern Approaches

Compass

By Mathias Enard (Translated by Charlotte Mandell)

Anthony Cummins

Steady, Eddie

The Nothing

By Hanif Kureishi

Andrew Hussey

Death of an Author

The 7th Function of Language

By Laurent Binet (Translated by Sam Taylor)

Cressida Connolly

Provincial Portraits

Anything Is Possible

By Elizabeth Strout

Minoo Dinshaw

Vinyl Frontier

The Forensic Records Society

By Magnus Mills

Ada Coghen

Portrait of a Family

The Awkward Age

By Francesca Segal

David R Henry

Medea on the Make

Bright Air Black

By David Vann

Natasha Cooper

Secrets & Despair

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

By Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich