BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Barnave

The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette

by John Hardman

Ramesses the Great

Egypt's King of Kings

Ancient Lives

by Toby Wilkinson

Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies

Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism

by Guillaume Payen

Translated by Jane Marie Todd and Steven Rendall

Maimonides

Faith in Reason

Jewish Lives

by Alberto Manguel

Alexander the Great

A Life in Legend

by Richard Stoneman

Thomas Jefferson

A Biography of Spirit and Flesh

by Thomas S. Kidd

Crassus

The First Tycoon

Ancient Lives

by Peter Stothard

Morozov

The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

by Natalya Semenova

Translated by Arch Tait

Sidney Reilly

Master Spy

Jewish Lives

by Benny Morris

The Making of Oliver Cromwell

by Ronald Hutton

Adventurer

The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

by Leo Damrosch

The Last Revolutionaries

The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals

by Laura Mason

Becoming Elijah

Prophet of Transformation

Jewish Lives

by Daniel C. Matt

The Fortunes of Francis Barber

The Story of the Enslaved Jamaican Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

by Michael Bundock

The Polymath

A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

by Peter Burke

Enlightened Eclecticism

The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland

by Adriano Aymonino