Rosemary Ashton

Crape Expectations

Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders

Jonathan Wolff

Tomorrow is Another Election

In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

By Jonathan White

Justin Mundy

Reasons to Be Cheerful

How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By Hannah Ritchie

Michael Taylor

The Long Road to Emancipation

The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888

By Robin Blackburn

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By Hannah Durkin

Rana Mitter

Hard Times on the Yangtze

The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China

By Timothy Brook

Donald Rayfield

Better Dead Than Red

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By Anna Reid

Daniel Rey

Priests with Pick Axes

How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo

Tim Smith-Laing

350 Years of Sodom

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750

By Noel Malcolm

Piers Brendon

Freak Shows, Peepshows & Sunday School

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

By Alwyn Turner

Caroline Moorehead

The Drowned & the Saved

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By Julian Borger

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By József Debreczeni (Translated from Hungarian by Paul Olchváry)

Megan Vaughan

Postcolonial Pains

The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

By Adam Shatz

Susan Owens

In Search of Lost Climes

Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape

By Fiona Stafford

Cal Flyn

Park Life

Under the Hornbeams: A True Story of Life in the Open

By Emma Tarlo

Raymond Tallis

Whose Fault is it Anyway?

Determined: Life without Free Will

By Robert M Sapolsky

James le Fanu

The DNA Supremacy

Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health

By James Tabery

Jason Goodwin

Sultans Old & New

To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul

By Alexander Christie-Miller

Craig Clunas

The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East

The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East

By Christopher Harding

Hazel Smith

Mona Lisa of Pyongyang

The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea

By Sung-Yoon Lee

Charlie Gammell

The Prophet & the Pretenders

The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

By Barnaby Rogerson

Ian Sansom

Ireland’s Lost Generation

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets

By Clair Wills

Gillian Tindall

Pilgrims, Poets & Prostitutes

Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark

By Margaret Willes

Bijan Omrani

Pillars of Sand

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

By Bettany Hughes

Patricia Fara

Explosion of Talent

The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia

By Bengt Jangfeldt (Translated from Swedish by Harry D Watson)

Sheena Joughin

Birds of a Feather

The Vulnerables

By Sigrid Nunez

James Womack

Novel Form of Politics

The Wizard of the Kremlin

By Giuliano da Empoli (Translated from French by Willard Wood)

Jude Cook

Bondage Clubs of Berkshire

What Will Survive of Us

By Howard Jacobson

Ian Critchley

Splendid Isolation

Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel

By Edited by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston

Sam Kitchener

Down on the Farm

My Heavenly Favourite

By Lucas Rijneveld (Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison)

Richard Canning

Only Disconnect

Day

By Michael Cunningham

Minoo Dinshaw

Syracuse by Shannon

Glorious Exploits

By Ferdia Lennon

Connor Harrison

Out Cold

A Mind of Winter

By Eoghan Smith

Michael Delgado

The Full Maggie

Pity

By Andrew McMillan

Lucy Thynne

Mean Girls

Come and Get It

By Kiley Reid

Esme Bright

On the Job

Green Dot

By Madeleine Gray

Tim Hornyak

Tokyo’s Pensioner Hoods

The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld

By Jake Adelstein