Stuart Isacoff

Piano Man

Mozart: The Reign of Love

By Jan Swafford

Charles Elliott

They Risked Their Lives for Flowers

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

By Jordan Goodman

Peter Davidson

Mighty Contests & Trivial Things

Alexander Pope in the Making

By Joseph Hone

Robert Colls

Let Them Read Catullus

A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

By Edith Hall & Henry Stead

James Hamilton

Artist of the Night

Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness

By Matthew Craske

Robert Mayhew

Three Cheers for Reason

The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790

By Ritchie Robertson

David Blow

Best of Enemies

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

By John Ghazvinian

Adrian Tinniswood

True to Type

The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers

By Joseph Hone

Freya Johnston

We are Family

The Good Sharps: The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World

By Hester Grant

Emma Griffin

Before the Offside Rule

This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760–1960

By Robert Colls

Matthew Parker

Who Do You Drink You Are?

Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance

By Richard Atkinson

Patricia Fara

The Green-Fingered Lothario

The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World

By Toby Musgrave

Donald Rayfield

The Monks who Came in from the Cold

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power

By Gregory Afinogenov

Alan Taylor

The Ettrick Shepherd

James Hogg & the Border Country

John McAleer

Viewing India on Acid

Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820

By Douglas Fordham