Theodore Dalrymple

It Could Be Verse

Piers Brendon

He Did Business in Great Waters

The Mountbattens

By Andrew Lownie

Vaudine England

Tiger Wives

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

By Jung Chang

Malise Ruthven

From Cordoba to Kabul

Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

By Justin Marozzi

Anne Curry

How to Lose Two Crowns

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By Lauren Johnson

Michael Goldfarb

People of Many Books

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847–1947

By Norman Lebrecht

David Crane

They Thought It Was All Over

Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917–1924

By Charles Emmerson

John McTernan

Downing Street 101

The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May

By Steve Richards

Jad Adams

Not Your Average Working-Class Heroine

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Selina Todd

David Gilmour

One Nation or Two?

Violencia: A New History of Spain – Past, Present and the Future of the West

By Jason Webster

After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain

By Tobias Buck

Andrew Monaghan

The Moscow Effect

Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin

By Robert Service

Mary Hollingsworth

View from the Palazzo

Out of Italy

By Fernand Braudel

A Month in Siena

By Hisham Matar

Lesley Downer

Our Man in Japan

This Great Stage of Fools: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings

By Alan Booth (edited by Timothy Harris)

Robin Simon

The Eyes Have It

Postures: Body Language in Art

By Desmond Morris

Jonathan Meades

Happy-Clappy Brutalism

100 Churches 100 Years

By Susannah Charlton, Elain Harwood & Clare Price (edd)

Charles Darwent

Burning Visions

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

By Paul Hendrickson

David Ekserdjian

Renaissance Man

Roger Fry and Italian Art

By Caroline Elam

David Wheatley

Hope Sings Eternal

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century

By John Burnside

Mia Levitin

#MeToo in the Making

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

By Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey

Joan Smith

Mob Mentality

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

By Douglas Murray

Michael Griffin

Sinning on the Seven Seas

The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier

By Ian Urbina

John Naughton

Computer Says Go

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

By Stuart Russell

Jeremy Clarke

Space Man

Car Park Life

By Gareth E Rees

Lindy Burleigh

Family Fortunes

My Name Is Why

By Lemn Sissay

Travel Light, Move Fast

By Alexandra Fuller

Not Speaking

By Norma Clarke

Keith Miller

Transatlantic Tales

Grand Union

By Zadie Smith

John Phipps

No More Mr Nice Guy

Akin

By Emma Donoghue

Lucian Robinson

Love in the Time of Plague

To Calais, In Ordinary Time

By James Meek

Philip Womack

Worlds Apart

The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust, Volume Two

By Philip Pullman

Bearmouth

By Liz Hyder

Beyond Platform 13

By Sibéal Pounder & Eva Ibbotson

Peter Davidson

Catholic Tastes