Einstein : A Life by Denis Brian

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War: Letters & Diaries 1939-45 edited and introduced by Peter J. Conradi

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs

12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg

George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick

Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives by Robert Dessaix

Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap by Nik Cohn

Fletchers: A Centennial History of Fletcher Building by Paul Goldsmith

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