A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS
‘One of the best memoirs I’ve read in years’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal … One can’t help but be moved by this story of upheaval and transformation’ SADIQ KHAN
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS
‘One of the best memoirs I’ve read in years’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal … One can’t help but be moved by this story of upheaval and transformation’ SADIQ KHAN
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS
‘One of the best memoirs I’ve read in years’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal … One can’t help but be moved by this story of upheaval and transformation’ SADIQ KHAN
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS
‘One of the best memoirs I’ve read in years’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal … One can’t help but be moved by this story of upheaval and transformation’ SADIQ KHAN
‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening’ GUARDIAN
‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening’ GUARDIAN
‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story’ NEW YORK TIMES
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult.
The full story of man’s attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Ussher’s confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescope’s images of a world 13 billion years old, with a starry cast of eccentrics, mystics, scientists and visonaries.
First time in ebook format, this biography of Isaac Newton reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this ‘ground breaking biography’ Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac Newton and reveals a portrait of the scientist as the last sorcerer.
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.
A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this ‘ground breaking biography’ Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac Newton and reveals a portrait of the scientist as the last sorcerer.
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.
The story of Galileo’s daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, as told through her letters to her father. A companion to the bestselling Galileo’s Daughter, the letters are edited and introduced by Dava Sobel.
