Levi Roach

Charlie’s Annals

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

By Janet L Nelson

Norma Clarke

The Flower of Her Age

Mrs Delany: A Life

By Clarissa Campbell Orr

Stephen Walsh

Keyboard Warrior

Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

By John Clubbe

David Pryce-Jones

Death in the Desert

Captain Gill’s Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders

By Saul Kelly

Michael Burleigh

All the President’s Hitmen

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies & Operators

By Annie Jacobsen

Patrick Scrivenor

Courage under Fire

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

By Lynne Olson

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall

By Sonia Purnell

The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

By Jack Fairweather

Allan Massie

Character Building

Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends

By Alberto Manguel

Matthew Cobb

Breaking the Colour Codes

Superior: The Return of Race Science

By Angela Saini

Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race

By Gavin Evans

Helen Bynum

Skin & Bones

The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution & Fate

By Brian Switek

The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Surface

By Monty Lyman

Zeb Soanes

Putting the Groundhog Out of Work

The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future

By Andrew Blum

Charlie Pye-Smith

Bloomin’ Foreigners

Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here

By Dan Eatherley

Nigel Andrew

Meet Fido, Our New Nematode

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

By Rob Dunn

Tim Whitmarsh

In Defence of Reason

The History of Philosophy

By A C Grayling

Laura Freeman

Satan’s Family Snaps

Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art

By Nicholas Hall, Dawn Ades, Olivier Berggruen & J Patrice Marandel (edd)

Adam Douglas

Save the Werewolf

Shapeshifters: A History

By John B Kachuba

Thomas Shippey

Of Poems & Puppet Operas

Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe

By Nicholas Jubber

Raffaello Pantucci

Murderers in the Making

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

By Joan Smith

Eleanor Fitzsimons

Fame & Shame

The Drama of Celebrity

By Sharon Marcus

Neil Armstrong

A Real Muck Raker

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames

By Lara Maiklem

Christopher Bray

Last of the Gunslingers

Once Upon a Time in the West: Shooting a Masterpiece

By Christopher Frayling

James Womack

Novelist in Arms

Stalingrad

By Vasily Grossman (Edited by Robert Chandler & Yuri Bit-Yunan) (Translated by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler)

Paul Bailey

A Small Town in Germany

At the Edge of the Night

By Friedo Lampe (Translated by Simon Beattie)

Michael Eaude

Havana Confidential

Grab a Snake by the Tail

By Leonardo Padura (Translated by Peter Bush)

Jake Kerridge

End of the Line

Platform Seven

By Louise Doughty

Samuel Reilly

Let Them Eat Corned Beef

Search Sweet Country

By Kojo Laing

Katie Da Cunha Lewin

Down at the Farm

Animalia

By Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Translated by Frank Wynne)

Joshua Young

Show of Hans

The Stranger from the Sea

By Paul Binding

Daniya Baiguzhayeva

Arrested Development

An American Marriage

By Tayari Jones

Nigel Buckley

Tell It on the Mountain