{"product_id":"traces-remain-9780140296822","title":"Traces Remain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Nicholl is a historian, biographer and travel writer. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography and the Crime Writers' Association 'Gold Dagger' award for non-fiction), \u003ci\u003eSomebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Hawthornden Prize) and the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eacclaimed biography, \u003ci\u003eLeonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been published in seventeen languages. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[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 *\u003cbr\u003eHistory leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In \u003ci\u003eTraces Remain, \u003c\/i\u003eCharles Nicholl transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles * Financial Times *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017565176151,"sku":"9780140296822","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140296822.jpg?v=1750773963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/traces-remain-9780140296822","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}