D J Taylor

What Do Critics Know?

Lucy Moore

Crown of Cacti

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

By Edward Shawcross

Bernard Porter

They Came, They Saw, They Dissented

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom

By Ramachandra Guha

Caroline Moorehead

The Unusual Suspects

The Island of Extraordinary Captives

By Simon Parkin

Freya Johnston

Squalor & Sublimity

The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

By Penelope J Corfield

Richard Cockett

The Case for Reparations

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

By Thomas Harding

Wendy Moore

Call the Doctress

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

By Helen Rappaport

Richard Davenport-Hines

Sleepless in New York

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick

By Cathy Curtis

Fran Bigman

Candid Camera

Vivian Maier Developed: The Real Story of the Photographer Nanny

By Ann Marks

Susan Owens

The Long Road to the Royal Academy

Constable: A Portrait

By James Hamilton

Adam Sisman

Sleeping with the Enemy

Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

By James Hanning

Beirut Spy: The St George Hotel Bar – International Intrigue in the Middle East

By Saïd K Aburish

Samantha Ellis

In the Blink of an Eye

Smile: The Story of a Face

By Sarah Ruhl

Henry Gee

Secrets of the Ediacara Hills

Otherlands: A World in the Making

By Thomas Halliday

Nigel Andrew

Conifer Creep

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By Ben Rawlence

Donald Rayfield

Editor-in-Chief of the USSR

Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books

By Geoffrey Roberts

Daniel Johnson

Rhyme & Repression

The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class That Tried to Win the Cold War

By Philip Oltermann

Theo Zenou

From Russia with Loathing

Bond Behind the Iron Curtain

By James Fleming

Sara Wheeler

Words Writ on a Camel’s Shoulder

Howard Davies

Whither the Eurozone?

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century

By Helen Thompson

David Anderson

The Constitution and Where to Find It

The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers

By Jack Beatson

Thomas Blaikie

Gold, Frankincense & Mozzarella

Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents

By Paul Brummell

Steven Nadler

Strife on Earth

Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering

By Mara van der Lugt

Martin Vander Weyer

Bad Manners and Bright Ideas

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption

By Sebastian Mallaby

Sue Stuart-Smith

Fatal Distraction

Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention

By Johann Hari

Paul Lay

Palazzos by the Thames

London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650

By Manolo Guerci

James Hamilton-Paterson

Beware White Men Bearing Corned Beef

Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

By Anna Della Subin

Elizabeth Lowry

Bird’s Eye View

Pure Colour

By Sheila Heti

Kate Webb

Twice an Exile

The Stone World

By Joel Agee

Andrew Hussey

Flights of Fancy

The Anomaly

By Hervé Le Tellier (Translated from French by Adriana Hunter)

Anna Aslanyan

The Ghost in the Bookshop

The Sentence

By Louise Erdrich

Paul Abbott

Six Authors in Search of Some Character

Mona

By Pola Oloixarac (Translated from Spanish by Adam Morris)

Lamorna Ash

No Pain, No Gain

My Father’s Diet

By Adrian Nathan West

Patrick Graney

True Colours

Phenotypes

By Paulo Scott (Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn)

Jude Cook

The Smuggler’s Tale

Winchelsea

By Alex Preston

Aida Amoako

The Kid’s Aren’t Alright

Brown Girls

By Daphne Palasi Andreades

Adam Douglas

Flog After Reading