Barnaby Crowcroft

Drills & Spills

A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

By Keith Fisher

Paul Morland

A Place in the Shade

Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

By Gaia Vince

Nicolas Niarchos

Batteries Not Included

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

By Henry Sanderson

Gavin Plumley

In Symphony with Modernity

Vaughan Williams

By Eric Saylor

The Captain’s Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song

By Caroline Davison

D J Taylor

From Staffordshire to the Savoy

Arnold Bennett: Lost Icon

By Patrick Donovan

Claudia Fitzherbert

Death by Chocolate

Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, an Unofficial Biography

By Matthew Dennison

Susan Owens

The Sea Held No Charm for Him

A Time and a Place: George Crabbe, Aldeburgh and Suffolk

By Frances Gibb

Freya Johnston

Mother & Author

Look! We Have Come Through! Living with Lawrence

By Lara Feigel

James Gow

Empire Strikes Back

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

By Philippe Sands

Richard V Reeves

What Chicken Tikka Masala Teaches Us

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

By Yascha Mounk

David Anderson

Rousing the Weary Giants

The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

By Jamie Susskind

Ian Fraser

Poverty in Plain Sight

The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain

By Darren McGarvey

James Delbourgo

Biscuits with D’Annunzio

At the Vittoriale degli Italiani

Jonathan Sumption

In Sickness and in Wealth

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

By James Belich

David Abulafia

Apostate in the Archive

A History of Water, Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Duncan Wheeler

Don Quixote Meets Don Juan

España: A Brief History of Spain

By Giles Tremlett

Incomparable Realms: Spain During the Golden Age, 1500–1700

By Jeremy Robbins

Thomas Shippey

Merlin, Magic & Mel Gibson

The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds

By Larisa Grollemond & Bryan C Keene

The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films

By Robert Bartlett

Caroline Moorehead

Frontiers of Guilt

Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

By Linda Kinstler

Peter Conrad

Return to Port Arthur

Nitram

By Justin Kurzel (dir)

Oliver Balch

Watching the Watchers

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

By Lucy Moore

Raphael Cormack

Finders Keepers?

A Short History of Tomb Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures

By Maria Golia

Mark Almond

Upstream of History

Openings & Outings: An Anthology

By David Pryce-Jones

Peter Davidson

Paradises on Earth

A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: The Quest for Secular Human Happiness Revealed in the Pastoral

By Paul Holberton

David Gelber

Carriage Story

British Rail: A New History

By Christian Wolmar

William Kuhn

Sun, Sand and Speedos

Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise

By Jack Parlett

Theo Zenou

Death, Thou Shalt Die

The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever

By Peter Ward

Samantha Ellis

Farewell to Wonderland

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By Sarah Polley

Managing Expectations

By Minnie Driver

Kevin Brazil

His Back Pages

Last Letter to a Reader

By Gerald Murnane

Tom Whyman

Ghost of the Jukebox

Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld

By Byung-Chul Han (Translated from German by Daniel Steuer)

Stephen Romer

Late Style

Deltas

By Leonie Rushforth

Vinegar Hill

By Colm Tóibín

Joie de vivre

By Paul Bailey

Paul Genders

Come Dine with Me

A Hunger

By Ross Raisin

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Meet the Oppenheimers

The Latecomer

By Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jake Kerridge

Hong Kong Confidential

On Java Road

By Lawrence Osborne

Jude Cook

Cutting Loose

The Long Knives

By Irvine Welsh

Sean Russell

Home Alone

Common Decency

By Susannah Dickey

Jay Gilbert

Cast Masters

The Performance

By Claudia Petrucci (Translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel)

Aida Amoako

Brick by Brick

Housebreaking

By Colleen Hubbard

Louis Rogers

Shallow Roots

Bonsai

By Alejandro Zambra (Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell)

A S G Edwards

Pen & Torpedo