Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day

By Michael Sims

"Michael Sims serves as a tour guide on an unforgettable journey through the wonders of an ordinary day. Sims explores the celestial events that form our days, fusing lively explanations of the phe...

Adam s navel

By Michael Sims

An informed survey, Adam's Navel is a unique brew of science, history, and storytelling that illuminates our perception, exploitation, and celebration of the human body. Moving from head to toe in...

Apollo s Fire

By Michael Sims

Darwin's orchestra

By Michael Sims

The dead witness

By Michael Sims

'The Dead Witness' gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems.

The phantom coach

By Michael Sims

"From the editor of The Dead Witness and Dracula's Guest, Michael Sims, expert on all things Victorian, presents a collection of stories about humanity's oldest supernatural obsession: ghosts. The...

Arthur and Sherlock

By Michael Sims

"As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, ho...

Frankenstein dreams

By Michael Sims

Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern scienc...

The dead witness

By Michael Sims

The dead witness

By Michael Sims

CRIME & MYSTERY. The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentie...