Donald Rayfield

Party Walls

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

By Yuri Slezkine

Saul David

He Scorned the British

African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa

By Robert Gaudi

Adrian Weale

Cheering for Hitler

The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit

By Josh Ireland

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

All They Could Eat

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Lizzie Collingham

John Keay

Reading the Leaves

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

By Erika Rappaport

Catherine Peters

Desperate Housewife

Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship, and Marriage

By Kathy Chamberlain

Justin Beplate

Dedalus at the Bar

Joyce in Court

By Adrian Hardiman

Valerie Grove

Queen of the Desert

Far to Go and Many to Love: People and Places

By Lesley Blanch (Edited by Georgia de Chamberet)

Frances Spalding

Firing the Imagination

Leonard Rosoman

By Tanya Harrod

Richard Cockett

Ditching Democracy

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

By Michael Vatikiotis

Simon Hall

Thinking in Black & White

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By Ibram X Kendi

Oliver Balch

Noonday’s Children

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta

By Kushanava Choudhury

The End of Karma: Hope and Fury among India’s Young

By Somini Sengupta

Adam Roberts

City in Light

Nairn’s Paris

By Ian Nairn

Tim Stanley

Willing Accomplice?

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

By Jeffrey Toobin

Anne Sebba

History Girl

Joining the Dots: A Woman in Her Time

By Juliet Gardiner

Jonathan Mirsky

Dog Days

Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up

By Xiaolu Guo

Crashing the Party: An American Reporter in China

By Scott Savitt

Anthony Sattin

La Dolce Eater

Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray

By Adam Federman

Robert Colls

Happy Hunting

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

By Robert Winder

Tom Fort

Farm & Fortune

Land of Plenty: A Journey Through the Fields & Foods of Modern Britain

By Charlie Pye-Smith

Christine Finn

Ground Force

Ancient Wonderings: Journeys into Prehistoric Britain

By James Canton

John Gray

Hobby Horses

A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick the Derby Winner

By Guy Griffith & Michael Oakeshott

Joanna Kavenna

The Long & Short of It

Essayism

By Brian Dillon

Charlie Beckett

Journalism in Jeopardy

The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information

By John Lloyd

Wendy Moore

Sense of an Ending

Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame

By Robert McCrum

Matt Thorne

Was That It?

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011

By Lizzy Goodman

Sarah A Smith

She’s Electric

The Power

By Naomi Alderman

Geoff Mills

Big Trouble on Little Campus

The Devil and Webster

By Jean Hanff Korelitz

Sam Kitchener

Guilt Trip

Beautiful Animals

By Lawrence Osborne

Anthony Cummins

Poison Pen

Fever Dream

By Samanta Schweblin (Translated by Megan McDowell)

Ludo Cinelli

Conspiracies of Silence

The Zoo

By Christopher Wilson