Simon Heffer

Critical Times

David Wheatley

He Was Afraid of Cows

The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 7: 1934–1935

By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)

Andrew Gallix

Read All About It

Barthes: A Biography

By Tiphaine Samoyault (Translated by Andrew Brown)

Edith Hall

Flower Gathering

The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths

By William Hansen (ed)

Frank Brinkley

Bring in the Heavies

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard

By Guy de la Bédoyère

Peter Jones

Fight Club

The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece

By Jennifer T Roberts

Tim Harris

Heir Loss

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

By Sarah Fraser

Leo McKinstry

Fronting it Out

The War in the West: A New History – Volume 2, The Allies Fight Back 1941–1943

By James Holland

Jane Ridley

Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall

A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938–1945

By Emily Russell (ed)

Edward Dolnick

Masterworks from the Garden Shed

A Forger’s Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger

By Shaun Greenhalgh

Oliver Balch

Into the Deep

Turning: A Swimming Memoir

By Jessica J Lee

Floating: A Life Regained

By Joe Minihane

Lucy Lethbridge

Broad Church

In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

By Rebecca Stott

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

By Patricia Lockwood

Paul Barker

Suburban Legends

Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt

By John Grindrod

Michael Hunter

The Whole World in His Hans

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Jonathan Keates

Misfortune Favours the Brave

A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini


By Caroline Moorehead

Lucy Moore

Contempt of Court

Love, Madness, & Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman

Michael Burleigh

Army of God

Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

By Afshon Ostovar

Jason Burke

Cultural Desert

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures

By Charlie English

Kenneth Maxwell

Beyond the Three Fs

Out of the Shadows: Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day

By Neill Lochery

Nick Holdstock

Leaps of Faith

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao

By Ian Johnson

Michael Bloch

Angels & Demons

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

By Peter Ackroyd

Manjit Kumar

The Beat Goes On

The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations

By Thomas Morris

Adrian Weale

‘A Wilderness of Wreckage’

The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice

By Stuart H Newberger

Nigel Andrew

Gulls Aloud

The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers

By Adam Nicolson

Charles Elliott

Growing, Growing, Gone

The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species

By Carlos Magdalena

John Lloyd

Despondent Correspondent

War and the Death of News: Reflections of a Grade B Reporter

By Martin Bell

Nakul Krishna

Other People’s Pain

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

By Arundhati Roy

James Purdon

Ringing Off

Phone

By Will Self

Suzi Feay

Road to Perdition

A Boy in Winter

By Rachel Seiffert

Simon Baker

Gone Girl

Missing Fay

By Adam Thorpe

Melanie White

Urban Hells

The Dinner Party

By Joshua Ferris

Maria Dimitrova

Getting Hitched

First Love

By Gwendoline Riley

Jude Cook

Life Choices

A Book of American Martyrs

By Joyce Carol Oates