MEMOIR
The Fire Bird, a Memoir: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy by Andrei Kozyrev
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
BIOGRAPHY
Dostoevesky in Love by Alex Christofi
Infidel: My Life by Ayaan Hirsi
Playing with Fire: the story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalinist Russia by Elizabeth Wilson
The Pursuit of Victory: the Life and Achievements of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
Super-infinite: Biography of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
HISTORY
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans in the Modern World 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W French
Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1919 by Kaja Hoyer
In the Camps: Life in China’s High Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler
Land by Simon Winchester
Legacy of Violence: History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
The People’s Bible: The Remarkable History of the King James Version by Derek Wilson
Do not Disturb: The Story of Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michaela Wrong
PHILOSOPHY
How to Live: The life of Michel de Montaigne in One Question… by Sarah Bakewell
The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne
SOCIOLOGY
Why We Fight by Christopher Blattman
NATURAL HISTORY/ ENVIRONMENT
A Cloud a Day by Gavin Preton-Pinney
Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Driori
Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald
NOVELS
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Horse Under Water by Len Deighton
Letters from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
NEWSPAPERS
Economist
Financial Times
Spectator (online)
The Times
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