Non-fiction

* The Adventure of English – Melvyn Bragg
* Agent Zigzag – Ben Macintyre
* Arthur and George – Julian Barnes
* Blood River – Tim Butcher
* Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
* Dickens, A Life – Claire Tomalin
* Dispatches—Michael Herr
* Do No Harm – Henry Marsh
* Explorers of the Nile – Tim Jeal
* The Hare With Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
* Hidden Lives – Margaret Forster
* In Parenthesis – David Jones
* Keeping an Eye Open – Julian Barnes
* In Pursuit of Spring – Edward Thomas
* Maus—Art Spiegelman
* Memoir – John McGahern
* Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
* Narrow Dog to Indian River – Terry Darlington
* Naples ’44 – Norman Lewis
* The Rings of Saturn—W G Sebald
* Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
* Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabokov
* Straw Dogs – John Gray
* The Big Short – Michael Lewis
* The Last Mughal – William Dalrymple
* The Music Room—William Fiennes
* The Myth of Maturity – Terri Apter
* The Old Ways – Robert Macfarlane
* The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson
* The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale
* The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England – Ian Mortimer
* This is Civilisation – Matthew Collings
* Watching the English – Kate Fox
* Waterlog – Roger Deakin
* What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami