Tim Stanley

Kindred Spirits

American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation

By John Kaag

Rory Mccarthy

The Case of the Vanishing Missiles

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979–2003

By Steve Coll

Michael Taylor

The Long Road to Emancipation

The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888

By Robin Blackburn

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By Hannah Durkin

Alan Ryan

Sparks of Revolution

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)

By Peter Moore

Lucy Lethbridge

Hitching Skirt and Wagon

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

By Katie Hickman

Rana Mitter

Day of Infamy

Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War

By Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman

Edward Vallance

The Trials of Goody Parsons

The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By Malcolm Gaskill

Frank McLynn

Blazing Comet Falls to Earth

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

By Peter Cozzens

David Blow

Best of Enemies

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

By John Ghazvinian

Kate Dossett

Jazz Age Rebels

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

By Saidiya Hartman

Malcolm Murfett

Isle of the Dead

Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War

By Saul David

Frank McLynn

Crazy Horse’s Last Stand

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

By Pekka Hämäläinen

Stephen Fender

The Plain Man’s Pound

The Poetic Achievements of Ezra Pound

By Michael Alexander

Michael Burleigh

All the President’s Hitmen

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies & Operators

By Annie Jacobsen

Jay Parini

Feds under the Bed

Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files

By JPat Brown, B C D Lipton & Michael Morisy (edd)