The Remarkable Life of the Skin

The first popular science book to address the skin in its multifaceted physical, psychological, and social aspects

Secret Service

From British journalist and bestselling author, Tom Bradby, Secret Service is a fresh-from-the-headlines thriller that follows senior MI6 agent Kate Henderson as she races to unmask a Russian mole in…

Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu

The full and colorful history of the American resort town that redefined class, wealth, and celebrity, by Florida’s preeminent historian and bestselling author

The Ways of the World

In this historical thriller from an internationally bestselling author, a daring young British pilot is swept into the world of international intrigue surrounding the Treaty of Versailles when his diplomat…

Vivien

“This is the best book we have had on Vivien Leigh, the most thoroughly and shrewdly researched, the most acute in its realization that Leigh was an actress who had…

Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man

“A better case can be made for the claim that Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man actually affected history than for other books so far published in the series, and Christopher…

South Beach

“South Beach: The Novel, Brian Antoni’s candy-colored and warmhearted second work of fiction, would make a terrific opera . . . Rich with club scenes and descriptions of off-beat forms…

Sherlock Holmes

“Rennison does a marvelous job of overlaying his own extensive research on clues from Doyle’s tales of Watson and Holmes, deciphering much for this complex, engaging portrait.” —Irene Wanner, The…

Shark

Following the Booker-shortlisted Umbrella, Shark is a mind-bending novel of the intersection of pathology and war, set in the 1970s but pivoting around the dropping of “Little Boy” on Hiroshima….

Seven Centuries of English Cooking