Description
Book SynopsisCharles 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.
Trade 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 *
