Selina Hastings

Trouble on the Horizon

Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939–51

By D J Taylor

Kevin Ruane

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Writer

Cold Warriors

By Duncan White

John Keay

On Firm Ground

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

By William Dalrymple

Keith Lowe

Low-flying Legends

Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By Max Hastings

Piers Brendon

For Whom the Handbell Tolls

Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

By Peter Hennessy

Caroline Moorehead

Roads to Somewhere

The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

By Peter Gatrell

Hazel Smith

Born to Supremacy

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

By Anna Fifield

Rana Mitter

From Beijing with Love

Great State: China and the World

By Timothy Brook

Munro Price

She Wasn’t Just in It for the Dresses

Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen

By John Hardman

Allan Massie

An Old-fashioned Kind of Spy

Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming

By Alan Ogden

Adrian Nathan West

Freedom Regained

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

By Józef Czapski (Translated by Eric Karpeles)

Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

By Eric Karpeles

Daisy Dunn

Better Than Staying at Home

The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations

By Martin Gayford

Dominic Sandbrook

Political Animals

Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers

By David Runciman

Christian Goeschel

Portraits in Tyranny

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

By Frank Dikötter

Ross McKibbin

This Isn’t Working Anymore

The People’s Flag and the Union Jack: An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party

By Gerry Hassan & Eric Shaw

Stuart Ritchie

Why, Hello There

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

By Malcolm Gladwell

Ed Vulliamy

Grace Notes

Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More

By Stephen Hough

Jerry White

They Cornered the Market

Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took on the World

By Thomas Harding

Manjit Kumar

Coming Full Circle

Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus – The Language of the Universe

By Steven Strogatz

Michael Scott

Cradle of the Kebab

Cities: The First 6,000 Years

By Monica L Smith

Paul Bailey

Fathers & Sons

Lines Off

By Hugo Williams

The Perseverance

By Raymond Antrobus

Greta and the Labrador

By Kevin Jackson

David Collard

Life Sentence

Ducks, Newburyport

By Lucy Ellmann

Anne Chisholm

Taken in the Night

Girl

By Edna O’Brien

Melanie White

After the Crash

The Man Who Saw Everything

By Deborah Levy

John Maier

Punk Parenting

Doxology

By Nell Zink

Cornelius Dieckmann

Houston, We are Stranded

Lot: Stories

By Bryan Washington

Michael Delgado

In a Flap

An Orchestra of Minorities

By Chigozie Obioma

Cressida Connolly

Love in the Stone Age

Ask Again, Yes

By Mary Beth Keane

Stephen Bates

Judge, Jury & Executioner

Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials That Defined Modern Britain

By Thomas Grant