Summary
A dazzling collection of essays and literary investigations from one of Britain’s most admired non-fiction writers.
In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time. His subjects range from a murder case in Renaissance Rome to the disappearance of Jim Thompson in 1960s Malaya, from the boyhood of Christ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140296822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140296824 |
| Author: | Charles Nicholl |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
[Nicholls is] a peerless historical sleuth. At once a biographer, an explorer and an investigator, he captures the past and its people in lightning-flashes of illumination. In Nicholl’s hands, the driest document can rise from the past and shine. Let’s hope for many more scintillating revelations from this magician of lost lives – Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles * Financial Times *
About The Author
Charles Nicholl
Charles Nicholl is a historian, biographer, and travel writer. His books include:
- The Reckoning (winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography and the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Gold Dagger’ award for non-fiction)
- Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize)
- Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind (acclaimed biography published in seventeen languages)
- The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street (nominated as ‘Book of the Year’ twelve times in 2007)
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has lectured in Britain, Italy, and the United States.
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