Joanna Kavenna

Note on Self

Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing

By Lara Feigel

Ian Sansom

A Life in Letters

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale

By James Atlas

Jane Rye

Hidden Figures

Joseph Gray’s Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

Jonathan Healey

How We Learned to Love the Arquebus

The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

By Steven Gunn

Edward Chaney

The Art of Politics

The Medici

By Mary Hollingsworth

Leo McKinstry

Shoot for the Sky

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World’s First Air Force

By Richard Overy

Stephen Bates

Court in the Crossfire

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken

By The Secret Barrister

Robert Colls

Working Five to Nine

Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

By James Bloodworth

Rupert Christiansen

The Bear Who Made Beautiful Music

Debussy: A Painter in Sound

By Stephen Walsh

Lawrence Rosen

Magus of the Maghreb

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

By Robert Irwin

Allan Massie

He Took the Path of Most Resistance

The Saboteur: True Adventures of the Gentleman Commando Who Took on the Nazis

By Paul Kix

Tim Stanley

Jokester-in-Chief

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor

By Richard Carwardine

Richard Cockett

Selfish Capital

A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory

By Jamal Mahjoub

David Lewis-Williams

There Be Foragers

Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

By James Suzman

Wendy Moore

The Past is Another Person

Somebody I Used to Know

By Wendy Mitchell

By Anna Wharton

Anna Minton

Metropolis Now

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

By Richard Sennett

Uta Frith

Cracks in the Glass Ceiling

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

By Patricia Fara

Anthony Cummins

Meet the Neighbours

The Friendly Ones

By Philip Hensher

Malcolm Forbes

Lives of the Poet

The Executor

By Blake Morrison

Costica Bradatan

Muted Witnesses

The Book of Whispers

By Varujan Vosganian (Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth)

Davina Langdale

Ocean Red

Woman at Sea

By Catherine Poulain (Translated by Adriana Hunter)

Adam Roberts

Reality Bites

The Great Chain of Unbeing

By Andrew Crumey

David Annand

Cold Comforts

Upstate

By James Wood

Simon Baker

Village Voices

The Western Wind

By Samantha Harvey

Nakul Krishna

Carnivorous New Flowers

The Book of Chocolate Saints

By Jeet Thayil