Jay Parini

Two Men in a Morris Minor

Kathryn Murphy

All at Sea

Albert and the Whale

By Philip Hoare

Piers Torday

He Slept His Way to the Bottom

Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin

By Michael Bloch & Susan Fox

Anthony Paletta

Don’t Mention the Woolworth Building

Building a New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

By Jean-Louis Cohen

Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital

By Katherine Zubovich

Helen Pearson

The Other C Word

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By Walter Isaacson

David Anderson

Watching the Watchers

We See It All: Liberty and Justice in the Age of Perpetual Surveillance

By Jon Fasman

Piers Brendon

He Played Sardines with the Aga Khan

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1918–38

By Simon Heffer (ed)

Donald Rayfield

The Lesser Evil?

Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

By Julius Margolin (Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman)

John Keay

Trial & Empire

Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India

By Roderick Matthews

Caroline Moorehead

French Connections

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham

Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE

By Kate Vigurs

Andrew McMillan

Confessions of a New Elizabethan

The Letters of Thom Gunn

By Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler & Clive Wilmer (edd)

D J Taylor

House of Cards

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

Bill Bell

The Skull in the Hall

The Author’s Effects: On Writer’s House Museums

By Nicola J Watson

Frances Wilson

Monsieur Plum & Mother Rat

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

By Marina Warner

Eric Ormsby

Wars of Words

The Rise of the Arabic Book

By Beatrice Gruendler

Carolyne Larrington

He Was the Man!

Beowulf: A New Translation

By Maria Dahvana Headley

Ritchie Robertson

Quill & Sceptre

Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings

By Avi Lifschitz (ed)

Julian Baggini

How Deep is Your Love?

Resources of Christianity

By François Jullien (Translated from French by Pedro Rodriguez)

Emma Park

We Must Cultivate Our Gardens

The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness

By John Sellars

The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life

By Sarah Sands

Rana Mitter

Women of the World

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

By Frances Larson

Edward Behrens

Last Orders

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By Jeremy Atherton Lin

James Blitz

No, Prime Minister

What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain

By Suzanne Heywood

John Gribbin

Cosmic Thoughts, Worldly Desires

Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton’s London Career

By Patricia Fara

Roy Greenslade

Man in the Mirror

Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By John Preston

Stephen Romer

He Dared Not Speak Its Name

The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories

By Marcel Proust (Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell)

Orlando Bird

Sociable Scientists

Double Blind

By Edward St Aubyn

Paul Bailey

A Puncture in Time

Ordesa

By Manuel Vilas (Translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg)

Martha Sprackland

Down & Out in Soho

Hot Stew

By Fiona Mozley

David Annand

Life Before Gatsby

Nick

By Michael Farris Smith

Jude Cook

What the Butler Saw

Kitchenly 434

By Alan Warner

Aida Amoako

The Director’s Cut

Diary of a Film

By Niven Govinden

Peter Davidson

An Infernal Conclave