Biography & Memoir
The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
Hardback
A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Christopher Columbus—his life, his legacy and the many controversies that outlived him
Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution
Hardback
A lively dual biography of the two great English orators of the eighteenth century, who cultivated a friendship across their political differences
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Paperback
The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema”
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Hardback
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Foreign Policy. “Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” —David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Augustine the African
Hardback
An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centres Africa in the life of one of the greatest philosophers