D J Taylor

Dusting off the Crystal Ball

Paul Cartledge

Cherchez la Femme?

Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher

By Armand D’Angour

Stephen Bates

The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anna Pasternak

Robert Irwin

Nursed on the Blood of Black Lambs

Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Timothy Brook

Before the Islands Disappear Again

Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago

By Philip Bowring

Jonathan Keates

Neither France Nor Germany

Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country

By Simon Winder

Michael Prodger

Turning Over a New Canvas

Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820

By Thomas Crow

Tom Stammers

Not Set in Stone

Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present

By Caroline Vout

Marc Mulholland

Line of Troubles

The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Christopher Coker

The Long Arm of the Chairman

Maoism: A Global History

By Julia Lovell

Russell Shorto

An Uncommon Cold

Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

By Philipp Blom

Richard Overy

Trial by Firestorm

Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945

By Aaron William Moore

Christopher Andrew

The Spy Who Loved Himself

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

By Owen Matthews

Simon Heffer

Death in the Car Park

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Charles Elliott

Desperately Seeking Sakura

‘Cherry’ Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms

By Naoko Abe

Tobie Mathew

Power Failure

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By Adam Higginbotham

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

By Kate Brown

Sarah Ditum

Mum’s the Word

Mother: An Unconventional History

By Sarah Knott

Charles Foster

More Morphic Resonances

Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work

By Rupert Sheldrake

Jeremy Clarke

Grey Balls of Fire

This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

By Ashton Applewhite

Helon Habila

African Epic

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

By Marlon James

Lucian Robinson

Lessons from Mad Pete

Lanny

By Max Porter

Ian Critchley

On the Road

The Parade

By Dave Eggers

Elisa Segrave

Family Fortunes

The Snakes

By Sadie Jones

Carol Rumens

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

Memories of the Future

By Siri Hustvedt

Amanda Craig

Sugar & Spice

Gingerbread

By Helen Oyeyemi