Sam Leith

Diary: To Be or To Not Be

Jeremy Treglown

Questions of Upbringing

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

By Hilary Spurling

Mary Wellesley

Wed to Rule

Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens 1066–1167

By Alison Weir

Caroline Finkel

Pedalling Influence

The Sultan’s Organ: The Epic Voyage of Thomas Dallam and his Extraordinary Musical Instrument in 1599 and his Time in the Palace and Harem of the Ottoman Sultan

By Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

John Bew

Empire & State Building

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906

By David Cannadine

David Stevenson

Peace of Mind

The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War

By Oona A Hathaway & Scott J Shapiro

John Carlin

Yes We Catalan

The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain

By Raphael Minder

Paul Bew

Sticking Power

Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life

By Malachi O'Doherty

Christopher Woodward

Capital Losses

The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City

By Iain Sinclair

Allan Massie

Pillaged People

Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

By Matthew Kneale

Alan Taylor

Pride of the Clyde

Glasgow: A History of the City

By Michael Fry

Michael Bloch

Queen of Darts

Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By Craig Brown

Jane Ridley

Wanderlust

Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor

By Simon Fenwick

Patricia Fara

Clean Bill of Health

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By Lindsey Fitzharris

Richard Overy

More by Luck Than Judgement

The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany

By David King

David Stafford

Leading Questions

The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre

By Helen Fry

Leo McKinstry

High Achievers

The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler’s Valkyries

By Clare Mulley

Alberto Manguel

Voyage Round My Father

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

By Daniel Mendelsohn

Mary Kenny

Flesh & Blood

Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love

By Fergal Keane

John Harwood

Scare Stories

The Ghost: A Cultural History

By Susan Owens

Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

By Leo Braudy

Kevin Jackson

Rise to the Occasion

Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension

By Peter Adey

Richard Davenport-Hines

High & Mighty

Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy

By Chris Bryant

Charlie Campbell

Shelf Life

The Diary of a Bookseller

By Shaun Bythell

Jonathan Keates

Second Sitting

Mrs Osmond

By John Banville

Clair Wills

Walls of Silence

The Ninth Hour

By Alice McDermott

Jake Kerridge

Devil’s Day

Devil's Day

By Andrew Michael Hurley

Lucy Daniel

Grand Remonstrance

Fresh Complaint

By Jeffrey Eugenides

James Holland

Battle of Nerves

Munich

By Robert Harris

Jonathan Barnes

Coming in from the Cold

A Legacy of Spies

By John le Carré