Matthew Sperling

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Poet

Philip Parker

Ice-Tongue & Leg-Biter

The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age

By Neil Price

Adrian Tinniswood

Sailing Close to the Wind

A Dangerous Game: Thomas Cochrane’s Life on the Edge

By Peter Moore

Jonathan Keates

Fixer from Florence

La Contessa

By Benedetta Craveri (Translated from Italian by Alex Andriesse)

Caroline Moorehead

An End to Security

The City without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna

By Douglas Smith

Piers Brendon

Waiting for Permission

Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965–66

By David Kynaston

Simon Nixon

American Nightmare

All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions and Years of Sh*tshow Politics Led to Trump – and How We Find a Way Out

By Anthony Scaramucci

Jen Stout

Cassandra in Kyiv

Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War

By Charlotte Higgins

Richard Vinen

Grand Bourgeois

The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian

By Emile Chabal

Tim Bale

‘Can’t You Do It?’

Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister?

By Anthony Seldon & Tom Egerton

John Gribbin

Formation of a Star

Hawking: His Life and Work

By Graham Farmelo

Andrew Preston

A Crisis of Interpretation

In the Realm of the Last Man

By Francis Fukuyama

Howard Davies

Betas in Alphaville

A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World

By Robin Wigglesworth

Martin Vander Weyer

Yeah, Right, Tax Advice

Money to Burn: Leon Black, Apollo and the Remaking of Wall Street

By William D Cohan

Joanna Kavenna

The Ghost in the Machine

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

By Jill Lepore

Anthony Gottlieb

Zombie iPocalypse

The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society

By James Marriott

William Whyte

No Thinking, Gentlemen, Please

For the Dead Remember: The Life of M R James

By Darryl Jones

Emma Smith

Mair Constancie in our Sex

With my Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho

By Ashley Douglas

Philip Womack

A Creature of Hobbit

The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J R R Tolkien

By D J Taylor

Wendy Holden

Preposterously Pink

The Great Dictator: A Life of Barbara Cartland

By Matthew Sweet

Ian Duhig

Whisp, White Meteor

Adrian Tahourdin

All About my Mother

Kolkhoz

By Emmanuel Carrère (Translated from French by John Lambert)

Sophie Oliver

Inconsistency Is Key

Gladys Hynes: Radical Lives

By Sacha Llewellyn, Sean Mark & Jennifer Fitzgerald

Rupert Christiansen

Excellence & Possibility

Voice of a Century: The Life and Artistry of Marian Anderson

By Anthony Tommasini

Jane O'Grady

Beyond Disbelief

Undoing the Moral Empire: Moral Philosophy in Post-War Britain

By Lesley Chamberlain

Bryan Appleyard

The Rare Necessities

Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Make a Difference?

By Jared Diamond

Nigel Andrew

Parish Wormholes

Church Crawling: The Secret Lives and Hidden Stories of England’s Churches

By Rachel Morley

Stephen Smith

The Narcissist Test

The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unravelling Men

By Jon Ronson

Carol Tavris

Tears & Fears

Widows: The Last Feminist Taboo

By Mineke Schipper

Tim Richardson

Two in the Bush

All Around Is Fairy Ground: Pleasure and the Regency Garden

By Timothy Mowl

Felicity Brown

Land of Pigs & Princes

Arthur: A New Life

By Amy Jeffs

Sara Wheeler

Tips about Icebergs

The Grip of the Ice: Scott, Shackleton and Survival in the Frozen Frontier

By Ed Armston-Sheret

David Horspool

Blow by Blow

97 Fights: A History of Modern Boxing

By John Sutherland

Constance Higgins

Current Affairs Blues

The Things We Never Say

By Elizabeth Strout

Keith Miller

Cry Freedom

The Newer World

By Sebastian Barry

Tom Lamont

After Howard’s End

The Golden Hours

By Louisa Young

Olivia Ho

Undiscovered Country

The Rouse

By China Miéville

Natalie Perman

Death in High Places

Switzy

By Emma Cline

Paul Genders

Buried Resentments

Ghost Month

By Simon Wroe

Edward Bayliss

Read Between the Lines

May We Feed the King

By Rebecca Perry

Clemmie Read

Upstairs, Downstairs, in the Boathouse

The Housekeeper

By Rose Tremain

Isaac Mead

Ruff Times

Etna

By Paul Yoon

Priya Abularach

Connect the Dots

Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow

By Iana Boukova (Translated from Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova)

Zara Khan

Nine to Five

Illusions

By Ruth Rehmann (Translated from German by Rob Madole)

Natasha Cooper

September 2026 Crime Round-up

• M W Craven, 
• Olly Jarvis, 
• Mark Gyves, 
• Daisy Stephens, 
• Sara Paretsky, 
• S J Galbraith, 
• Sarah Pinborough, 
• Janice Hallett

Kate McLoughlin

Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?