James Campbell

A Vinyl Reckoning

Joe Moran

Where Fry Met Laurie

The Cambridge Footlights: A Very British Comedy Institution

By Robert Sellers

Mark Glancy

Partners in Suspense

Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema

By Steven C Smith

Andrew Preston

Doubters Within

McNamara at War: A New History

By Philip Taubman & William Taubman

Philip Snow

A Party to the Horror

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

By Frank Dikötter

Fitzroy Morrissey

The Fall of the House of Osman

The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince

By Imran Mulla

Rupert Christiansen

Shelter from the Storm

Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War

By Jane Rogoyska

Martin Vander Weyer

Forces of Extraction

The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

By Nicolas Niarchos

Alexander Lee

Rise of the Machinations

Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy

By Carol Chillington Rutter

Hermione Eyre

Comrade of the Manor

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford

By Carla Kaplan

Michael Burleigh

Furies in Drag

Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

By Laura K Field

Kapil Komireddi

Where Rituals Come Home to Roost

The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia

By Sonia Faleiro

Freya Johnston

The Book of Daniel

A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe’s Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence

By Marc Mierowsky

Robert Gordon

Tangled Webs

A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul

By Caroline Moorehead

Nancy Campbell

Gesundbrunnen

Jonathan Keates

Get on This Train

Ghost Stations: Essays and Branchlines

By Patrick McGuinness

Felicity Brown

In Vain I Have Struggled

In Love with Love: The Persistence and Joy of Romantic Fiction

By Ella Risbridger

Miranda Seymour

Into the Woods

The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires

By Sophie Pinkham

Aaron Labaree

Spanish Imposition

The Future of Travel

By Daniel Maurer

Guy Stagg

Fringe Benefits

The Edges of the World: At the Margins of Life, Lands and History

By Charles Foster

Tim Hornyak

Into the Wild

The Traveling Tree: Lessons from a Nomadic Life

By Michio Hoshino (Translated from Japanese by Eli K P William)

Will Wiles

A Bally High

Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine

By Andreas Bernard (Translated from German by Valentine A Pakis)

Zoe Guttenplan

Dead Funny

Vigil

By George Saunders

Ben Hutchinson

Family Affair

The Effingers: A Berlin Saga

By Gabriele Tergit (Translated from German by Sophie Duvernoy)

Peter Kemp

Somewhere Towards the End

Departure(s)

By Julian Barnes

Joseph Williams

Dialled up to Eleven

Lost Lambs

By Madeline Cash

Donald Rayfield

Princess & Paupers

The Grandmother: Scenes from Village Life

By Božena Němcová (Translated from Czech by Susan Reynolds)

Natalie Perman

Normal People

One Sun Only

By Camille Bordas

Anne Billson

Scenes from a Marriage

The Cat

By Georges Simenon (Translated from French by Ros Schwartz)

Stevie Davies

Echoes of Partition

This Is Where the Serpent Lives

By Daniyal Mueenuddin

Ray Philp

Forever Young

Freezing Point

By Anders Bodelsen (Translated from Danish by Joan Tate)

Jay Gilbert

Flatmate from Hell

He’s the Devil

By Tobi Coventry

Rachel Armitage

Crush Hour

Jean

By Madeleine Dunnigan

Joshua Klarica

Here & Now

they

By Helle Helle (Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken)

February 2026 Crime Round-up

• Romy Hausmann (Translated from German by Jamie Bulloch), 
• M K Oliver, 
• Philippa Malicka, 
• Alice Leigh, 
• Frances Crawford, 
• Simone Buchholz (Translated from German by Rachel Ward), 
• Catriona Ward, 
• Karsten Dusse (Translated from German by Florian Duijsens), 
• Leodora Darlington

Lucy Popescu

Jimmy Lai

Sarah Pyke

List of a Lifetime