The Red and the Black

The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649

Racine and Shakespeare

The Ottoman Empire: 1300-1600

The Charterhouse of Parma

In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I

Memoirs of Rossini

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

Selected Journalism

The World of All Souls: A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life

Two Stories/Deux nouvelles: A Dual-Language Book

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Memoirs of an Egotist

The Tudors: The Kings and Queens of England's Golden Age

The Abbess of Castro

Italian Chronicles

Conquerors: How Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the First Global Empire

Rome, Naples and Florence

The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty