Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond

Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd

No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin

God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East by Judith Miller

Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient by Barbara Hodgson

NZSAS: The First Fifty Years by Ron Crosby

Under A Bomber’s Moon: The True Story of Two Airmen at War Over Germany by Stephen Harris

Vietnam: A History. The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War by Stanley Karnow

Letters From Oxford: Hugh Trevor Roper to Bernard Berenson edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

My Father is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud by Janna Malamud Smith

My Education: A Book of Dreams by William S. Burroughs

The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature edited by Amit Chaudhuri