Rachel Cohen

Stepping out of the Shadows

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

By Whitney Chadwick

Dominic Green

Double Takes

Grand Illusions: American Art & the First World War

By David M Lubin

Richard Cockett

Rohingya on the Edge

Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim ‘Other’

By Francis Wade

Levi Roach

At Cross Purposes

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

By Catherine Nixey

Linda Porter

Recipes for Survival

Lady Fanshawe’s Receipt Book: The Life and Times of a Civil War Heroine

By Lucy Moore

Sarah Fraser

Philosopher Queen

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach

By Matthew Dennison

Kenneth O Morgan

On Benefits

Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State

By Chris Renwick

Caroline Moorehead

Witnesses of the Persecution

Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People

By Julia Boyd

Sarah Bradford

Family Planning

Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

By Deborah Cadbury

Donald Rayfield

A Dictator’s Progress

Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941

By Stephen Kotkin

Robert Colls

Arguments for Democracy

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E Ricks

Frederic Raphael

Holy Fool?

Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

By George Prochnik

Kevin Jackson

Aria Rage

History Is Our Mother: Three Libretti

By Alice Goodman

Tim Blanning

Listen Closely

The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart

By Mitchell Cohen

Adrian Barnett

Baboon Companions

Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates

By Julia Fischer (Translated by Frederick B Henry Jr)

Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist’s Ethical Journey

By John P Gluck

Nigel Andrew

All Atwitter

Mozart’s Starling

By Lyanda Lynn Haupt

A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing

By Richard Smyth

Jonathan Balcombe

Not Just for Christmas

The Animals Among Us: The New Science of Anthrozoology

By John Bradshaw

Xan Smiley

Mission Statements

Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat

By Christopher Mallaby

Jonathan Mirsky

Tutorials from a Transvestite

China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser

By Michael Bristow

Ian Sansom

Portrait of the City

Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir

By John Banville

Bijan Omrani

Searching for Sufism

Travels in a Dervish Cloak

By Isambard Wilkinson

Christopher Coker

All Tomorrow’s Battles

The Future of War: A History

By Lawrence Freedman

Tom Fort

A Rock to Call Home

Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago

By Patrick Barkham

Tim Richardson

Opposites Attract

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

By Margaret Willes

Gillian Tindall

A Leaf Less Ordinary

Ancestors in the Attic: My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns & My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors

By Michael Holroyd

Michael Eaude

Liar, Liar

The Impostor

By Javier Cercas (Translated by Frank Wynne)

Ada Coghen

Mixed Felines

My Cat Yugoslavia

By Pajtim Statovci (Translated by David Hackston)

Claudia FitzHerbert

Resurrecting Daemons

La Belle Sauvage

By Philip Pullman

Adam Roberts

Of Minds & Men

Gnomon

By Nick Harkaway

Jonathan Barnes

Familiar Grounds

The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

By William Boyd

Kathy O'Shaughnessy

Death of an Actor

Love and Fame

By Susie Boyt

Lucian Robinson

Giving Up the Ghost

First Person

By Richard Flanagan

Ian Critchley

Mommy Issues

Mother Land

By Paul Theroux

Philip Womack

Collision Course

The Accident on the A35

By Graeme Macrae Burnet