Avi Shilon

Israel or Bust

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

By Tom Segev (Translated from Hebrew by Haim Watzman)

Tanya Harrod

Fear & Loathing in the Studio

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth – 1922–1968

By William Feaver

Frances Spalding

Man of Many Brushes

The Art of an Art Historian

By Alan Powers, with contributions from Peter Davidson & Michael Hall

Patrick Wilcken

Creating Pax Xinguana

People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon

By John Hemming

Michael Burleigh

Taking Aim at Apartheid

An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father’s Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd

By Susie Cazenove

Richard Cockett

Motherhood & Mediation

The Education of an Idealist

By Samantha Power

Maurice Frank

Writing on the Wall

Bill Bell

From the Abattoir to Amazon

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

By Leah Price

Richard Bourke

Convince Me

How Words Make Things Happen

By David Bromwich

Jonathan Keates

Fronte Femminile

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

By Caroline Moorehead

Anna Reid

Feeding the Eight Million

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine

By Douglas Smith

Adam Zamoyski

They Shall Not Pass

The Fortess: The Great Siege of Przemyśl

By Alexander Watson

Leo McKinstry

A Sorry State

Staring at God: Britain in the Great War

By Simon Heffer

Charles Elliott

The £569 Pineapple

An Economic History of the English Garden

By Roderick Floud

Jerry White

Man About City

Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital

By Simon Jenkins

Elain Harwood

Ring Road Nation

Boom Cities: Architect-Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain

By Otto Saumarez Smith

Jane O'Grady

All By Myself

A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion

By Fay Bound Alberti

Lucy Moore

Objects in the Rear-View Mirror

The Pulse Glass, and the Beat of Other Hearts

By Gillian Tindall

Hugh Thomson

One Man in a Boat

The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination

By Philip Marsden

Richard Canning

Still Standing

Me

By Elton John

Face It

By Debbie Harry

Year of the Monkey

By Patti Smith

Joseph Owen

Net Losses

The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-First Century

By David Goldblatt

Edward Behrens

Swags & Sofas

Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

By William Norwich (ed)

Patrick Scrivenor

Tears of a Wombat Owner

The Animal's Companion: People and their Pets, a 26,000 Year-Old Love Story

By Jacky Colliss Harvey

Hannah Rosefield

Matters of Debate

The Topeka School

By Ben Lerner

Ian Critchley

Nan about Town

Grandmothers

By Salley Vickers

Kate McLoughlin

Remains of the Day

Olive, Again

By Elizabeth Strout

Josie Mitchell

A House But Not a Home

The Dutch House

By Ann Patchett

Violet Hudson

Marian Evans, the Radical

In Love with George Eliot

By Kathy O'Shaughnessy

Martha Sprackland

Out on a Limb

The Memory Police

By Yoko Ogawa (Translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder)

Paloma van Tol

Notes from Underground

The Starless Sea

By Erin Morgenstern

Michael Alexander

A Play by Any Other Name