Paul Collins, Author . Bloomsbury $25 (246p) ISBN 978-1-59691-195-6
Undoubtedly, the Bard himself would be amused to learn all about the fate of the book compiled after his death by fellow actors and colleagues John Heminge and Henry Condell. It was, a collector said recently, “the most important secular work...
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Paul Collins. Crown, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-59220-0
A dismembered corpse and rival newspapers squabbling for headlines fuel Collins's intriguing look at the birth of "yellow journalism" in late–19th-century New York. On June 26, 1897, the first of several gory bundles was discovered: a man's chest...
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Paul Collins, Author . Picador $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-26886-2
In this collection, first-time author Collins resurrects from the junk heap of obscurity 13 figures who earned considerable fame and notoriety during their lifetimes. For example, we meet a 19th-century plagiarist so talented he managed to convince...
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Paul Collins, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58234-284-9
Hay-on-Wye, a Welsh town of 1,500, is heaven on earth for people who love books, especially old books. It has 40 bookstores, and if you can't find what you want in one of them, you can fork over 50 pence and visit the field behind the town...
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Paul Collins, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (245p) ISBN 978-1-58234-367-9
Rare is the book that can wring more pathos out of its subject than one written by a parent about his or her disadvantaged child. In this slim, reflective memoir, the author of Sixpence House
takes readers from the moment he and his wife learn...
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Paul Collins, Author . Tor $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0307-3
Australian author Collins trains an unflinching gaze on classic science-fiction themes—the condition of Earth after global war, and the survival of the fittest. Ensign Welkin Quinn, the 14-year-old protagonist, is a product of 300 years of...
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Paul Collins, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-58234-502-4
These are the times that try men's... bones? In this quixotic, mischievous and often hilarious work, Collins (Sixpence House
) traces the bizarre story of Thomas Paine's remains through nearly two centuries of American and English history....
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Paul Collins. PublicAffairs, $29.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-61039-013-2
Western Europe claws its way out of the Dark Ages—just barely—in this hair-raising history. Collins, formerly a Catholic priest, surveys the century or so after Charlemagne’s empire collapsed into civil war and anarchy, a time when government was a...
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Paul Collins. Crown, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-95645-3
NPR’s “literary detective” once again applies his skills as a historian to a now-obscure crime that was a cause célèbre in its day. With a novelist’s touch, Collins (The Murder of the Century) opens with the January 1800 discovery of a woman’s body...
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Paul Collins. PublicAffairs, $30 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-61039-860-2
Theologian and former Catholic priest Collins (Papal Power) focuses on the political and religious influence of Catholic popes since 1799 in this convincing history. Beginning with the death of Pius VI in exile and ending with the early years of...
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Paul Collins. Norton, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-24516-5
With the rigor of a historian and a novelist’s eye for detail, Collins (Duel with the Devil) constructs a mesmerizing account of the 1849 murder of a socially prominent, Harvard-educated physician. The victim, Dr. George Parkman, who was last seen...
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