Michael Taylor

From fossil-hunting to the end of faith, this gripping narrative history of the seventy-five-year culture war transformed how we think about the universe and our place in it. In 1811, when the self-schooled daughter of a carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from Britain's southern shoreline, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world....

A superb narrative history of the discovery of dinosaurs and how they revolutionised our understanding of the Earth's and mankind's origins. Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world. 'An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject' - PETER FRANKOPAN 'As thrilling as it is...

The first proper history of the world's most notorious secret society and its bizarre and dangerous afterlife. On 1 May 1776, a radical young professor named Adam Weishaupt founded a secret society whose aim was to infiltrate and overturn the system of world power from within. Intellectuals, judges, politicians and poets joined, united by Enlightenment ideals and liberal attitudes towards...