Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover

You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher Potter

Meals To Come: A History of the Future of Food by Warren Belasco

Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia by Robert Lacey

Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia by Daniel Metcalfe

Dreadnought: Britain Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie

Robert Maxwell Israel’s Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon

Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder by Jack McLaughlin

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran

Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir by Fatima Bhutto

Mad Dogs and Englishmen: An Expedition Round My Family by Ranulph Fiennes

Reach For The Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space by Richard Branson

Paul Robeson: A Biography by Martin Duberman

I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau by Gary Kemp

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera

James Lees-Milne: The Life by Michael Bloch