The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000BC-2000AD by Julia Lovell

Kublai Khan the Mongol King Who Remade China by John Man

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory by Lisa Jardine

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead

Lilla’s Feast: A True Story of Love, War and a Passion For Food by Frances Osborne

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, First Edition, by V. S. Naipaul

Violin Dreams by Arnold Steinhardt First Violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet

George Balanchine Ballet Master: A Biography by Richard Buckle

Lucrezia Borgia: Life Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford

Reading Pictures by Alberto Manguel

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom

Leonard Woolf: A Life by Victoria Glendinning

The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter

The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds by Ariel Dorfman