Here are some suggestions:

Non-Fiction -

The Adventures of Margery Allingham – Julia Jones (pb)

My Life in Pieces – Simon Callow (pb)

Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe – Ulinka Rublack (pb)

Charles Dickens: A Life – Claire Tomalin (hb)

The Churchills: A Family At the Heart of History, From the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill – Mary Lovell (hb)

The Last Pre-Raphaelite – Fiona MacCarthy (hb)

Fiction -

The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz (hb)

A Book of Liszts – John Spurling (hb)

The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes (hb)

The Complaints - Ian Rankin (pb)  

Lucky Break – Esther Freud (pb)

The Paris Wife – Paula McLain (hb/pb)