Earth Fire Water Air: Anne Danger’s Letters to Grace Crowley 1930-1951 edited by Helen Topliss

Essays in Love by Alain de Botton

The Secret Lives of Words by Paul West

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman

Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones

Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov

Opotiki-Mai-Tawhiti: Capital of Whakatohea by Ranginui Walker

Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James

The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust

The Great Wall: The Extraordinary History of China’s Wonder of the World by John Man

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron