Jane Stevenson

Brush with the Shelleys

Patrick Wilcken

Descent of Man

Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia

By Matthew Carr

Nicola Shulman

Sex on Stems

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

By Sarah Bilston

Michael Prodger

Breaking the Mould

Fragility: A History of Plaster

By Alain Corbin (Translated from French by Helen Morrison)

Rupert Christiansen

A Novelist Draws

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

Jonathan Rée

Take Back Control

Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought

By Bruno Leipold

Saul David

Mammoth Task

A Training School for Elephants

By Sophy Roberts

Robin Simon

First Impressions

Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape

By Nicola Moorby

Jonathan Keates

Accuser Accused

Emile Zola: A Determined Life

By Robert Lethbridge

David Morgan-Owen

Monarch of the Sea

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815–1945

By N A M Rodger

Claire Harman

Great Affectations

Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

By Peter Conrad

Peter Davidson

Painter to the Devil

Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli’s Art and Life

By Christopher Baker

Donald Rayfield

One Way Ticket to Pskov

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Peter Moore

Raising the Flag of Freedom

Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation

By Stephen Taylor