David A H B Taylor

The Sport of Kings

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II

By Linda Porter

Sarah Dunant

Love at Second Sight

A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519

By Carolyn James

Richard Norton-Taylor

For Your Eyes Only, and Theirs

Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance

By Jessica Bruder & Dale Maharidge

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

By Barton Gellman

Dmitri Levitin

We Shall Fight Them on The Terraces

Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football

By Tobias Jones

John McAleer

Viewing India on Acid

Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820

By Douglas Fordham

Michael Tanner

Last Hurrah

Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption

By Roger Scruton

Alan Taylor

The Ettrick Shepherd

James Hogg & the Border Country

R J B Bosworth

Duce Vita

Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935–1943

By John Gooch

Donald Rayfield

The Monks who Came in from the Cold

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power

By Gregory Afinogenov

Daisy Dunn

At Home with Oedipus

Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

By Paul Cartledge

Richard Overy

From the Kaiser to Kohl

A History of 20th-Century Germany

By Ulrich Herbert (Translated from German by Ben Fowkes)

David Mikics

The Star-Spangled Bard

Shakespeare in a Divided America

By James Shapiro

Sara Wheeler

Doctorow’s Orders

Patricia Fara

The Green-Fingered Lothario

The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World

By Toby Musgrave

John Gribbin

She Broke the Galactic Ceiling

What Stars are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

By Donovan Moore

Matthew Parker

Who Do You Drink You Are?

Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance

By Richard Atkinson

Charlie Pye-Smith

Farming Tomorrow

Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them

By Tim Lang

Frances Wilson

She Wore It Best

Clothes… and Other Things That Matter

By Alexandra Shulman

Mia Levitin

What Ails?

The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir

By Sarah Ramey

Humphrey Hawksley

Along the Red Corridor

Centralia

By Poulomi Basu

Kate McLoughlin

The Bear Necessities

The Night Watchman

By Louise Erdrich

Thomas Marks

School for Scandal

English Monsters

By James Scudamore

John Maier

Love in the Time of Corbyn

Exciting Times

By Naoise Dolan

Ethan Croft

Life Ends at Fifty

Sorry for Your Trouble

By Richard Ford

Rebecca Cook

Hen Plight

Barn 8

By Deb Olin Unferth

Harry Strawson

From Russia with Lust

The Blessed Rita

By Tommy Wieringa (Translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett)

Julia Gray

After the Fall

The Arrow of Apollo

By Philip Womack

Nick Burns

Partners in Crime

I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me

By Juan Pablo Villalobos (Translated from Spanish by Daniel Hahn)