Paul Lay

Palazzos by the Thames

London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650

By Manolo Guerci

Dmitri Levitin

How Philology Changed the World

The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

By Christopher S Celenza

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

A Polymath’s Progress

Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science

By Robyn Arianrhod

David Profumo

Helter Skelter

Jonathan Swift: The Complete Poems

By Pat Rogers (ed)

John Skelton: The Complete English Poems

By John Scattergood (ed)

Alexandra Walsham

The Curious Case of the White Radishes

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc

By Suzannah Lipscomb

Peter Moore

‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’

The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery

By Graham Seal

Robert Nye

Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare?

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

The Age of Shakespeare

By Frank Kermode

C A R Hills

The Whole World for Their Grave

A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668

By Malyn Newitt

Michael Waterhouse

Rule Britannia

William Camden: A Life in Context

By Wyman H Herendeen

John Adamson

Pursuit of the Pastoral

Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection

By Adam Nicolson

Robert Nye

A Notable Disliker Of Milk and Martyrdom

John Donne: The Reformed Soul

By John Stubbs

John Adamson

Scots at the Top

Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642

By Tim Harris