"This brilliantly written reconstruction of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 South American journey combines painstaking scholarship, vivid travelogue, and an intuitive sensitivity for the many meanings of the El Dorado myth. . . . Nicholl brings this six-week expedition to life. . . . A rare treat for both intellect and imagination."-Kirkus Reviews
"Walter Raleigh . . . was one of those Elizabethan all-rounders who still seem staggeringly larger than life. . . . Mr. Nicholl's cogent reconstruction of the journey uses Raleigh's own account, 'The Discoverie of Guiana'-part truth, part...

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades.

This is an investigation of the killing of Christopher Marlowe, tracing his shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. Critical new evidence is uncovered about his three companions on that last day in Deptford and about the sinister role of the informer Richard Baines. The Reckoning is also a revelation of the whole extraordinary underworld of Elizabethan crime and espioinage, a secret theatre in which nearly every historical figure familiar to us, from hack poet to queen's high minister, seems to have...

'The Lodger' is an original literary detective story, and an entirely new biographical take on Shakespeare's life, focusing on the years of his resident on Silver Street, 1602-1604.