Adrian Tinniswood

Where the Houses Have No Names

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

By Deirdre Mask

Miranda Seymour

Must You Stay?

The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend

By Adrian Tinniswood

What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History

By Brian Fagan & Nadia Durrani

J W M Thompson

Not So Quaint As It Seems

A Social History of the English Countryside

By G E Mingay

Edward Behrens

Swags & Sofas

Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century

By William Norwich (ed)

Nicholas Rankin

Tuning Out

Auntie’s War: The BBC during the Second World War

By Edward Stourton

Kenneth O Morgan

On Benefits

Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State

By Chris Renwick

Paul Addison

Picking up the Pieces

The Fear and Freedom: How the Second World War Changed us

By Keith Lowe

Duncan Minshull

Walk On By

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

By Rebecca Solnit

Jonathan Mirsky

What’s Behind the Blue Door?

Inside Notting Hill

By Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson

Joan Smith

Oprah, Di and Hillary

Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage

By Elaine Showalter

Janet Gruber

Filtered Feelings

African Women

By Mark Mathabane

Anthony Dykes

Out of Fashion

Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England

By Harry Potter

Tim Stanley

There Will Be Blood

Killers of the Flower Moon

By David Grann

Keith Lowe

Memory Lane

Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904–2014

By Pascale Hugues (Translated by C Jon Delogu & Nick Somers)

Lucy Moore

Ladies Bountiful

The Riviera Set, 1920-1960: The Golden Years of Glamour and Excess

By Mary S Lovell

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses between the Wars

By Siân Evans

Jonathan Mirsky

Girls Allowed

China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

By Kay Ann Johnson

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

By Mei Fong

Lucy Moore

Stitches in Time

The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

By Lynn Knight

Simon Heffer

Guilty Parties

The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–45

By Nicholas Stargardt