Black GoldFrom the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster A rich social history Paxmans book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES Vividly told Paxmans fine narrative powers are at their best THE TIMES Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It drove industry, religion, politics, empire and trade. It powered

Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain

Among the Krewe of Hunters is an old flame

JoJo drew a tattoo on Nancy's precious doll

Sosa has a gift with words that’s

host of the Fox TV series America’s Most Wanted—in Hollywood

He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói

but about the humble

despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education

Winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award

unforgettable moments that shape a life

headline-making stories to advertise their talent’s superb “skill

Prayer: A History (with Carol Zaleski)