John Stubbs

Playwright with a Cause?

Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny

By Clare Asquith

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

A Polymath’s Progress

Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science

By Robyn Arianrhod

John Gribbin

When Computers Rule the World

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

By James Lovelock with Bryan Appleyard

Andrew Crumey

Space Oddities

The Moon: A History for the Future

By Oliver Morton

Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket

By Fraser MacDonald

Kevin Jackson

He Went from Peak to Peak

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan

By Ursula Buchan

Maren Meinhardt

From Tahiti to the Terror

Georg Forster: Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

By Jürgen Goldstein (Translated by Anne Janusch)

Veronica Buckley

Sovereign on Whom The Sun Never Set

King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV

By Philip Mansel

Paul Binding

Under the Heel

The Warlow Experiment

By Alix Nathan

Miranda France

Very Plausible Dystopia

Zed

By Joanna Kavenna

David Blackbourn

Propaganda & Purges

Culture in Nazi Germany

By Michael H Kater

Richard Overy

The Great Dictator?

Hitler: A Life

By Peter Longerich

Jonathan Keates

After the Conspiracy

The Lost Boys: A Family Ripped Apart by War

By Catherine Bailey

Mark Cornwall

A Tale of Betrayal?

The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia

By P E Caquet

Lucy Lethbridge

Picture Imperfect

On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons

By Laura Cumming

Paul Bailey

Flash Backs

The Photographer at Sixteen

By George Szirtes

John Keay

Imprints of Persia

India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

By Richard M Eaton

Eric Ormsby

Straw Men in Mufti

Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750

By Noel Malcolm

Richard Vinen

On the Edge of Glory

Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971–2017

By Simon Reid-Henry

Nigel Andrew

Songs from the Cow Shed

The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape

By Richard King

Lesley Downer

Album Notes

The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion

By Melissa McCormick

Max Norman

You Say Women, I Say Wimmen

The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language

By Peter Martin

Mike Phillips

A Backpacker in the Banlieues

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

By Johny Pitts

Catherine Brown

Dressing Gown Nation?

Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

By Sara Wheeler

Peter York

Very Important Party Person

The Impatient Pen: Printed Matter

By Nicky Haslam

Jake Kerridge

An Affair to Remember

Sweet Sorrow

By David Nicholls

Malcolm Forbes

Love & Loss

The Hiding Game

By Naomi Wood

David Annand

Marine Life

The Volunteer

By Salvatore Scibona