
International Non-Fiction
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
A.
- Alexandria | Edmund Richardson
- Alone in America | Robert A Ferguson
- An Odyssey | Mendelsohn
- The Austen Years | Rachel Cohen
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein
- Autumn Light | Pico Iyer
B.
- Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister | Jung Chang
- Birdsong in a Time of Silence | Steven Lovatt
- The Black Death | Philip Ziegler
- The Brain’s Way of Healing | Norman Doidge
- The Broken Road | Patrick Leigh Fermor
- The Brother’s Gardeners | Andrea Wulf
C.
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman | Robert K Massie
- Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmakers | A. N. Wilson
- City of Djinns | William Dalrymple
The Cloudspotter’s Guide | Gavin Pretor-Pinney- The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution | Timothy Tackett
- The Consolations of Philosophy | Alain de Botton
- The Cost of Living | Deborah Levy
- Coventry | Rachel Cusk
- Creatures of a Day | Irvin d Yalom
- Curiosities and Splendour: An Anthology of Classic Travel Literature
D.
- The Danube by Nick Thorpe
Digging For Richard III by Mike Pitts- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Dust Tracks on a Road | Zora Neale Hurston
E.
- Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
- England’s Queens by Elizabeth Norton
F.
- The Flaneur by Edmund White
- Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farmer
- The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
G.
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Genius and Ink | Virginia Woolf
Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry- The Greater Journey by David McCullough
- Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey
H.
- Havana | Mark Kurlansky
- Hiroshima | John Hersey
- Hokkaido Highway Blues | Will Ferguson
- Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari
- How Proust Changed My Life | Alain de Botton
I.
- Imagining London | Anna Quindlen
- In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson
- In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick
- India | Naipaul
- Istanbul | Orhan Pamuk
J.
- The Japanese | Christopher Harding
K.
- Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life | Claire Tomalin
L.
- The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi 1857 | William Dalrymple
- Literary Places | Sarah Baxter
- Lost Japan | Alex Kerr
- Love Letters | Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West
- Lucy Maud Montgomery | Mary Henley Rubio
M.
- Magic Island: The Fictions of L M Montgomery | Elizabeth Waterson
- The Man in the Red Coat | Julian Barnes
- Marie Curie and Her Daughters | Shelley Emling
- Men We Reaped | Jesmyn Ward
- Monarchs of the Sea | Danna Staaf
A Month in Siena | Hisham Matar
N.
- Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
- The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
The Novel of the Century by David Bellos
O.
- October by China Mieville
- On the Narrow Road: Journey into a Lost Japan by Lesley Downer
- Origins by Amin Maalouf
P.
- Pandora’s Jar: Women in Greek Myths | Natalie Haynes
- Parisian Lives | Deirdre Bair
- The Pattern in the Carpet | Margaret Drabble
- A People’s Tragedy | Orlando Figes
Q.
R.
- Red Sky at Sunrise | Laurie Lee
- The Rhine | Ben Coates
- Rice Noodle Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture | Matt Goulding
- The Roads to Sata: A 2000 Mile Walk Through Japan | Alan Booth
- Roller Coaster: Europe 1950-2017 | Ian Kershaw
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley | Charlotte Gordon- A Russian Journal | John Steinbeck
S.
- Salt Fat Acid Heat | Samin Nosrat
- Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari
- Second Nature | Michael Pollan
The Secret Life of Cows | Rosamund Young- The Shepherd’s Life | James Rebanks
- Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher | Timothy Egan
- The Silk Roads | Peter Frankopan
- The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Story of China | Michael Wood
- The Swerve: How the Renaissance | Stephen Greenblatt
T.
- Territory of Light | Yuko Tsushima
- Testament of Friendship | Vera Brittain
- Thermopylae | Paul Cartledge
- Things I Don’t Want to Know | Deborah Levy
- Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | Janet Malcolm
U.
V.
- The Views of Nature | Alexander Humboldt
- Virginia Woolf | Hermione Lee
- The Voyage of the Narwhal | Andrea Barrett
W.
- The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma
- Wanderlust | Rebecca Solnit
- When Paris Sizzled | McAuliffe
Why Read Moby Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick- The Wild Isles | edited Patrick Barkham
- Women of the Raj by Margaret Macmillan