Julian Baggini

More Fool You

A Short History of Stupidity

By Stuart Jeffries

Phil Baker

From Dusk Till Dawn

Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark

By Dan Richards

Wolf Moon: A Woman’s Journey into the Night

By Arifa Akbar

Thomas Blaikie

Members Only

London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious

By Seth Alexander Thévoz

Freya Johnston

Reader, I’d Marry Him

‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love & Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column

By Mary Beth Norton (ed)

Cressida Connolly

Dustmen to Dust

No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality

By Molly Conisbee

A J Lees

Port in a Storm

Scouse Republic

By David Swift

Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain

By Sam Wetherell

Patricia Fara

A Viper a Day

The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

By Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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)

Gillian Tindall

Let the Tills Ring Out

The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street

By Annie Gray

Thomas Blaikie

No Prawns Were Harmed

Crunch: An Ode to Crisps

By Natalie Whittle

Jane Ridley

Just a Straightforward Shooting Weekend

The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War

By Adrian Tinniswood

Clive Martin

A Great Advert for the Game

Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) the Language of Football

By Adam Hurrey

Alexander Raubo

All Fall Down

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering

By Malcolm Gladwell

Frances Wilson

Best of Frenemies

The Virago Book of Friendship

By Rachel Cooke (ed)

Edward Brooke-Hitching

From Beer Street to Gin Lane

Drink Maps in Victorian Britain

By Kris Butler