Jonathan Keates

Perpetual Strangers

The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews

By Alexander Lee

Jonathan Sumption

The King’s Man

Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel

By Chris Given-Wilson

Stephen Lovell

Tsar in His Eyes

Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs

By Antony Beevor

Piers Brendon

Woman of Her Time

Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941–1945

By Kathleen Harriman (Edited by Geoffrey Roberts)

Simon Heffer

Eye of the Storm

A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars

By Alwyn Turner

Caroline Moorehead

Stories of Survival

Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–1945

By Ian Buruma

Erik Linstrum

Gilded Rage

The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure

By Barnaby Phillips

Victoria Musvik

The Terrible & the Great

A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow

By Simon Morrison

Philip Snow

A Party to the Horror

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

By Frank Dikötter

Rupert Christiansen

Shelter from the Storm

Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War

By Jane Rogoyska

Daisy Dunn

O, Lesbia!

Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic

By Douglas Boin

Anna Reid

Little Women, Big State

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

By Julia Ioffe

John Foot

Grave Matters

Travels Through the Spanish Civil War

By Nick Lloyd

El Generalísimo: Franco – Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness

By Giles Tremlett

David Andress

Exquisite Corpse

Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror

By Keith Michael Baker

Edward Short

Imperial Crucible

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

By Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

James Snell

Fall of the House of Assad

It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World

By Rime Allaf