Read an extract from some recently published and forthcoming books by Andrew Robinson:

1. Click to read the prologue ('Egyptomania')
and see the jacket and press release for Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion. The book will be published by Thames & Hudson (April 2012) and Oxford University Press USA (June 2012).

2. Click to read an unfinished proof of the Introduction to The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery. The book will be published by Thames & Hudson (autumn 2012).

3. Click to read the opening pages of Chapter 1 of Earthquake. The book will be published by Reaktion Books (autumn 2012).

4. Click to read Chapter 1 of Genius: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011).

5. Click to read Chapter 1 of The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic (I.B. Tauris, 2011).