William Boyd

My Evening with Marilyn

H Kumarasingham

The Price of Freedom

The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery

By Michael Taylor

Luke Daly-Groves

They Had a Theory of Everything

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

By Richard J Evans

Geoffrey Roberts

A Subversive, Not a Psychopath

Stalin: Passage to Revolution

By Ronald Grigor Suny

Paul Kennedy

From Singapore to San Francisco

Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830–1930

By John Darwin

David Anderson

The Spy Who Taught Me

Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

By John Ferris

How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

By David Omand

Elizabeth Lowry

Marriage Made in Hell

The Fall of a Sparrow: Vivien Eliot’s Life & Writings

By Ann Pasternak Slater

Seamus Perry

He Knew All of Shakespeare by Heart

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death

By Harold Bloom

Peter Davidson

Mighty Contests & Trivial Things

Alexander Pope in the Making

By Joseph Hone

David Pryce-Jones

The Peril & the Glory

Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene

By Richard Greene

Nigel Andrew

A Ventriloquist’s Love Song

Being Betjeman(n)

By Jonathan Smith

Lawrence Freedman

No Time for Dreams

A Promised Land

By Barack Obama

Joanna Kavenna

Writers on the Storm

Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology

By Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan (edd)

Richard Smyth

Back to Nature

Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature’s Goodness

By Alan Levinovitz

The Natural Health Service: What the Great Outdoors Can Do for Your Mind

By Isabel Hardman

Henry Gee

Magic Mushrooms

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

By Merlin Sheldrake

Charles Elliott

They Risked Their Lives for Flowers

Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors – An Adventurous History of Botany

By Jordan Goodman

Michael Ignatieff

When Virtue is Not Enough

What’s Wrong with Rights?

By Nigel Biggar

Joan Smith

Home Truths

Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care

By Madeleine Bunting

No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK’s Forgotten Homeless

By Maeve McClenaghan

Andrew Adonis

The Harvard Supremacy

The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?

By Michael J Sandel

Richard Vinen

The Devil’s Crop

The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria

By Owen White

Rana Mitter

Setting the World Ablaze

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire

By Tim Harper

David Wheatley

Poet of Procrastination

The Selected Letters of John Berryman

By Philip Coleman & Calista McRae (edd)

Joseph Farrell

From Treasure Island to Neverland

A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J M Barrie

By Michael Shaw (ed)

Patricia T O'Conner

Good Gad!

Tom Stern

The Verification Code

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

By David Edmonds

Andrew Hussey

Deconstructionist Deconstructed

An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida

By Peter Salmon

Melanie Marshall

Christ Laid Bare

The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher?

By Julian Baggini

Matthew Craske

Stone Poses

Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now

By Antony Gormley & Martin Gayford

Susan Owens

Quick to Draw

The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

By John Dixon Hunt

James Hall

Between a Rock & a Hard Place

Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By Fabio Barry

Miranda Seymour

He Looked Best in a Skirt

Dangerous to Show: Byron and His Portraits

By Geoffrey Bond & Christine Kenyon Jones

Laura Freeman

Travels in My Kitchen

Donald Rayfield

Pro-Sex, Anti-Stalin

Collected Poems

By Robert Conquest (Edited by Elizabeth Conquest)

Thomas Williams

Among the Drinkers of Ink

Randomly Moving Particles

By Andrew Motion

The Late Sun

By Christopher Reid

In the Lateness of the World

By Carolyn Forché

Vaudine England

From Cabinetmaker to Cabinet Maker

Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia

By Ben Bland

Salley Vickers

It Gets Better with Age

The Midlife Mind: Literature and the Art of Ageing

By Ben Hutchinson

Thomas Blaikie

Gravy with Everything

Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain

By Pen Vogler

Lucy Lethbridge

Off the Cuff

Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

By Claire Wilcox

Stuart Isacoff

Piano Man

Mozart: The Reign of Love

By Jan Swafford

Richard Canning

Sequins & Synthesizers

Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture – the Story of the New Romantics

By Dylan Jones

Bananarama: Really Saying Something

By Sara Dallin & Keren Woodward

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

By Dolly Parton, with Robert K Oermann

Hugh Thomson

One for the Woad

Walking the Great North Line: From Stonehenge to Lindisfarne to Discover the Mysteries of Our Ancient Past

By Robert Twigger

James Purdon

Blackout Sunday

The Silence

By Don DeLillo

Miranda France

Sex on the Brain

The Group

By Lara Feigel

Avril Horner

In Full Flood

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

By Barbara Comyns

David Annand

Soldiers of Misfortune

Missionaries

By Phil Klay

Alice Jolly

Roads Less Travelled

The Invisible Land

By Hubert Mingarelli (Translated from French by Sam Taylor)

Paul Bailey

A Visit from Mother

Memorial

By Bryan Washington

Frank Brinkley

Pub Crawls & Paddle Steamers

That Old Country Music

By Kevin Barry

Hallelujah Station & Other Stories

By M Randal O’Wain

Jude Cook

Humps in the Road

Beneath the Trees of Eden

By Tim Binding