Michael Burleigh

Pirates of the Aegean

Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry

By Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel

Carl Miller

How Dosh Went Digital

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for Our Wallets

By Brett Scott

David Anderson

Facebook Knows Your Thoughts

Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

By Susie Alegre

Will Wiles

Build ’em Up, Knock ’em Down

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

By Charlotte Van den Broeck (Translated from Dutch by David McKay)

David Boyd Haycock

The Radicalism of a Watercolour

The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars

By Frances Spalding

Alwyn Turner

Tripping Down Tin Pan Alley

Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop

By Bob Stanley

Peter Davidson

Go Forth and Proselytise

The Jesuits: A History

By Markus Friedrich (Translated from German by John Noël Dillon)

Lucy Lethbridge

Hitching Skirt and Wagon

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

By Katie Hickman

Alexandra Gajda

Method in the Melancholy

The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty

By Helen Hackett

H Kumarasingham

Illiteracy is No Disqualification

In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History

By Dominic Lieven

Linda Porter

Bar the Door!

The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story

By Jessie Childs

Richard Vinen

The Past is Another Country

Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain

By Hannah Rose Woods

Robert Chandler

Memories of Odessa

The Story of a Life: Books One–Three

By Konstantin Paustovsky (Translated from Russian by Douglas Smith)

Lucy Moore

La Jeune Fille Sophistiquée

Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

By Anne de Courcy

Rosemary Goring

Confessions of a Book Thief

Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel

By James Campbell

Peter Parker

Hello, Boys

The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham

By Paul R Deslandes

Mike Jay

A Nation of Telepaths

The Premonitions Bureau: A True Story

By Sam Knight

Sarah Watling

Speaking Volumes

Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

By Emma Smith

Joanna Moncrieff

Madness & Mistreatment

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness

By Andrew Scull

Rachel Fraser

Come As You Are 

Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body

By Clare Chambers

Gillian Tindall

Last Orders at the Dockers’ Inn

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

By John Davis

Michael Smith

Are You for Real?

Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

By Alice Sherwood

Tom Fort

The Poet and the Pike

The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes

By Mark Wormald

Megan Walsh

When Worlds Collide

On the boom in Chinese science fiction

J S Barnes

Consume in Moderation

The Candy House

By Jennifer Egan

Hannah Rosefield

Life, University & Everything

Either/Or

By Elif Batuman

John Phipps

Baggy Dog Story

Here Goes Nothing

By Steve Toltz

Madoc Cairns

4004 & All That

Time Shelter

By Georgi Gospodinov (Translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel)

Amanda Craig

Distant Echoes of Glory

Bad Relations

By Cressida Connolly

Nicholas Harris

Kiss Me Through the Phone

Reward System

By Jem Calder

Alice Jolly

Earning His Spurs

My Name is Yip

By Paddy Crewe

Geoff Mills

School for Scandal

Vladimir

By Julia May Jonas

Francesca Peacock

Pass the Sodium Chloride

Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus

Louis Rogers

Camp Connections

Quarantine

By Nick Holdstock

Damian Walsh

The Banana Spider’s Web

Emergency

By Daisy Hildyard

Nigel Andrew

A Pocket Full of Arsenic

The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery

By Stephen Bates

Michael Dirda

A Taxonomy of Collectors