Howard Davies

Financial Times

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860–1914

By Donald Sassoon

Michael Burleigh

Imminent Return to Chaos & War

The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth

By Michael Mandelbaum

Frances Wilson

Neo-Pagans at Large

Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters – Four Lives in Seven Fragments

By Sarah Watling

Tim Richardson

Avant-Gardeners

A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines

By Hugh St Clair

Tom Stern

A Walk through the Churchyard

Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard

By Clare Carlisle

Jane O’Grady

In the Beginning was the Word

Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

By Jonathan Rée

Philipp Blom

Bones of Contention

Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

By Andrew S Curran

Phil Baker

Travels with My Cactus

Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic

By Mike Jay

Nicholas Vincent

The Man Who Would be King

The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry

By Sophie Thérèse Ambler

Frank Mclynn

What’s the Big Idea?

Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Richard Cockett

A Country in Limbo

A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma

By David Eimer

David Motadel

Losing their Religion

Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism

By Sumantra Bose

Oliver Balch

Cabin Fever

Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

By Dan Richards

Lucy Moore

You Are What You Wear

Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes

By Shahidha Bari

Christopher Hart

Night Plunderers & River Pilferers

The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary

By Caroline Crampton

Richard Smyth

Free as a Bird?

Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings, and Why We Return

By Jon Day

Bijan Omrani

Rhinos of War

The Snow Leopard Project and Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation

By Alex Dehgan

Simon Briscoe

Stat Craft

The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data

By David Spiegelhalter

David Wheatley

The Trump of Modern Satire?

Peaches Goes It Alone

By Frederick Seidel

Girlhood

By Julia Copus

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975–2017

By Helen Dunmore

David Collard

Joint Favourites

Tamarisk Row

By Gerald Murnane

Border Districts

By Gerald Murnane

Lesley Downer

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Dandelions

By Yasunari Kawabata (Translated by Michael Emmerich)

Samuel Reilly

Displacement Activity

Travellers

By Helon Habila

Sophie Baggott

When Sticklebacks Fly

Things that Fall from the Sky

By Selja Ahava (Translated by Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah)

Michael Delgado

Lifting the Curtain

Shadowplay

By Joseph O’Connor

Tom Williams

Life in the Big Smoke

Plume

By Will Wiles

George Wilson

Damage Report

What Red Was

By Rosie Price