Peter Watson
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the ‘Insight’ team of The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for the Observer, The New York Times, Punch and The Spectator. He is the author of thirteen books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, at the University of Cambridge.
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The Age of Nothing
The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and…
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Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century
'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES 'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR 'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEW TERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique…
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The Great Divide
How the division of the Americas from the rest of the world affected human history. In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa…
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Ideas
A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. 'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN 'An extraordinary new book…