Fire and Rain: The Beatles,  Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970 by David Brownie

Captain Cook: Master of the Seas  by Frank McLynn

The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd

Power and Glory: Jacobean England and The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson

The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer

Monarchy From The Middle Ages to Modernity by David Starkey

The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion That Shook Henry VIII’s Throne by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

Paradise of Cities: Venice and its Nineteenth-Century Visitors by John Julian Norwich

The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon

The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson