Apollo

A Crack in Everything

Marcus Chown

Breakout at Stalingrad

Heinrich Gerlach

The Apothecary's Wife

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Land Is All That Matters

Myles Dungan

Rough Beast

Máiría Cahill

The Colonel and the Eunuch

Mai Jia

A Present Past

Sergei Lebedev

Hubris

Jonathan Haslam

Amnesiac

Neil Jordan

Secrets of the Bees

Jane Johnson

The Beating Heart

Robin Choudhury

Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

Fintan O'Toole

Gauguin and Polynesia

Nicholas Thomas

How to Make a Bomb

Rupert Thomson

Ring of Fire

Alexandra Churchill

Six Lives

Lavie Tidhar

Oscar

Matthew Sturgis

The Last Days of Budapest

Adam LeBor

Inventing the Renaissance

Ada Palmer

Koresh

Stephan Talty

Henry V

Dan Jones

Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted

Ben Okri

Magna Carta

Dan Jones

Norway's War

Robert Ferguson

The Thistle and The Rose

Linda Porter

The Weimar Years

Frank McDonough

Ocean

John Haywood

Eagle Days

Victoria Taylor

How Good It Is I have No Fear of Dying

Lara Marlowe

The World's Game

Frederic Raphael