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

Gillian Slovo

Apartheid in the Family

Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa

By Cato Pedder

Richard Vinen

Last Days of King Coal

Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985

By Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite & Natalie Thomlinson

The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialisation: A Political and Cultural History

By Jörg Arnold

Gillian Tindall

Pilgrims, Poets & Prostitutes

Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark

By Margaret Willes

Ian Sansom

Ireland’s Lost Generation

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets

By Clair Wills

Rosemary Ashton

Crape Expectations

Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders

Piers Brendon

Freak Shows, Peepshows & Sunday School

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

By Alwyn Turner