The Queen’s Agent: Sir Francis Walsingham and the Rise of Espionage in Elizabethan England
A “superb” portrait of the Tudor-age spymaster that “paints a John le Carré–like world of double-dealing and intrigue” (The Sunday Telegraph…
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
"This edition includes a new interview with the author"--P. [4] of cover.
Madame Curie: A Biography
This story was published serially under the title: Marie Curie, my mother.
Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man Who Invented the 20th Century
If you want to learn about one of history’s most fascinating minds and uncover some of his secrets of imagination—secrets that enabled him t…
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In …
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
With warmth, wit, and good cheer, Standiford shows how the unlikely success of A Christmas Carol revitalized Charles Dickens's languishing c…
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New…
The Monk of Mokha
From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of …
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired
To be a muse to a celebrated artist is surely one of the most flattering roles a person can have. But what is the life of a muse really like…
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish A…
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery and Murder in Medieval England
“Gripping . . . a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life.”—The Washington Post Book World An “insightful a…
Hannibal: The Enemy of Rome
Originally published: Enemy of Rome. London: Evans Bros., 1960.
Galileo: A Life
A suspenseful narrative and spiritive rendition of the life of Galileo.
Mary Shelley
‘The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade…' – Financial Times ‘To be savoured for its vivid and sympa…
Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius
"The remarkable story of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), an impoverished abandoned boy who became the notorious libertine, famous writer, and …
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French natio…
Hangover Square
Set in pre-WWII London, Hangover Square is a dark, compelling portrait of George Harvey Bone, a troubled man obsessed with a manipulative wo…