From a walking tour of the monasteries on Mt. Athos to a camel trek across the Sahara, the book shows how his passions-for history, for travel, for music-have combined with simpler pleasures like friendship and a close family.

Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history. “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is ...

Volume 2 of the series. With 32 pages of illustrations, and 7 maps.

John Julius Norwich provides brilliant portraits of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the French, the Venetians, the Popes, and the pirates of the Gulf.

Enlivened by Quentin Blake's witty illustrations, this book is a perfect stocking-stuffer.

Epic and compelling, Absolute Monarchs is an enthralling history from “an enchanting and satisfying raconteur” (The Washington Post).

There are ghost stories, games and bizarre recipes. Diary-entries, recipes and letters sit alongside poems and short stories. An English Christmas could convert any Scrooge into an instant enthusiast.

This history of the sexual practices of the ancient world shows that today's much vaunted sexual freedom and diversity had already been discussed, analyzed and practiced over 2000 years ago.

Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice’s highs and lows, from its ignominious capture by Napoleon in 1797 to the dawn of the 20th ...

The rest was silence. So here is my attempt to fill in the blanks . . . John Julius Norwich's last book is the book he always wanted to write: the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best.