Donald Rayfield

One Way Ticket to Pskov

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

By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Adrian Tinniswood

Manors & Menorahs

Jewish Country Houses

By Juliet Carey & Abigail Green (edd)

A J Lees

Men, Minds & Motorcycles

Letters

By Oliver Sacks

Richard Davenport-Hines

Prime Ministers I Have Known

Clarissa: Muse to Power – The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon

By Hugo Vickers

Richard Smyth

Fascists Writing Badly

Tanya Harrod

Rags to Riches

Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs

By Jovan Nicholson

Frances Wilson

In Cleanness and in Filth

Marina Scholtz

Daughter of Misfortune

The Fate of Mary Rose

By Caroline Blackwood

Caroline Moorehead

Midnight in Sicily

John Foot

All the Pontiff’s Men

Vatican Spies, from the Second World War to Pope Francis

By Yvonnick Denoël (Translated from French by Alan McKay)

Rosa Lyster

Years of Magical Thinking

Didion and Babitz

By Lili Anolik

The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion

By Cory Leadbeater

The Friday Afternoon Club

By Griffin Dunne

Druin Burch

From Bad to Wurst

Three Books for your Kitchen Shelf

Piers Brendon

Queen of Peking

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson

By Paul French

Charles Shaar Murray

Positively 4th Street

Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital

By David Browne

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Atlas Snoozed

Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success

By Alexandra Popoff

Caroline Moorehead

Schloss B&B

Secrets of a Suitcase: The Countess, the Nazis, and Middle Europe’s Lost Nobility

By Pauline Terreehorst (Translated from Dutch by Brent Annable)