This narrative records a journalist's adventures on the trail of "The Great Cocaine Story" in Colombia. It follows him from the seedy backstreet bars of Bogota to fashionable beach resorts. The people he meets include the fixers, smugglers, cooks, mules, the corner boys and the streetgirls.[...]

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in a[...]

In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In "The Lodger Shakespeare," Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life.[...]