Biography & Memoir
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Paperback
In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists...
Snake Men: Rebels, Reptiles, and the Race to Name Earth's Creatures
Hardback
A wry and thought-provoking tale about the defiant, eccentric figures obsessed with Australia’s deadliest reptiles
Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic
Paperback
A thrilling new history of the late Roman Republic, told through a woman’s quest for justice
How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information
Hardback
A brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay
Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat—and the American Revolution—Transformed Britain
Hardback
An explosive, deeply revisionist work that reveals how a renegade English Duke and Thomas Paine, the firebrand polemicist, almost brought the American Revolution to Britain