A dazzling collection of essays and literary investigations from one of Britain's most admired non-fiction writers
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) and the acclaimed biography, Leonardo da Vinci- The Flights of the Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages. His most recent book is The Lodger- Shakespeare on Silver Street, which was 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.
[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
*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*
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