Tobie Mathew

Power Failure

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By Adam Higginbotham

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

By Kate Brown

John Gribbin

Of Coal & Calculus

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton – Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

By Benjamin Wardhaugh

Dominic Green

The French Erection

Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty

By Francesca Lidia Viano

Jonathan Meades

England’s California?

The Buildings of England: Dorset

By Michael Hill, John Newman & Nikolaus Pevsner

Victor Mallet

Dam the Consequences

Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia’s History

By Sunil Amrith

William Whyte

A Plague on All Your Glass Towers

Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism

By James Stevens Curl

John Tusa

The Villa’s Tale

The Last Palace: Europe’s Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague

By Norman Eisen

John Martin Robinson

Notes to Shelf

The Country House Library

By Mark Purcell

David Watkin

Design for Living

The English House

By Hermann Muthesius (Edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Jane Seligman & Stewart Spencer)

Will Wiles

Just So Stories

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

By Simon Winchester

Adrian Tinniswood

If Walls Could Talk

Rooms of Their Own

By Nino Strachey

Bryan Appleyard

Is He A Genius?

Big Jim: The Life And Work of James Stirling

By Mark Girouard

Bevis Hillier

Do Not Despise the Dilettante

William Beckford: Composing For Mozart

By Timothy Mowl

Fergus Fleming

Planning Permission Pending

Phantom Architecture

By Philip Wilkinson

Jonathan Meades

Construction Deconstructed

Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

By Reinier de Graaf

Philip Mansel

State of the Arts

The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

By Wolf Burchard