The Lunar Men
by Jenny Uglow | 
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
by Alison Weir | 
Copernicus' Secret
by Jack Repcheck | 
The Clockwork Universe
by Edward Dolnick |
The Verneys
by Adrian Tinniswood | 
The Age of Wonder
by Richard Holmes | 
Arbella
by Sarah Gristwood | 
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke
by Lisa Jardine |
Tycho & Kepler
by Kitty Ferguson | 
The Invention of Air
by Steven Johnson |
The Pirate Queen
by Susan Ronald | 
Ungrateful Daughters
by Maureen Waller | 
Kepler's Witch
by James A. Connor | 
Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel | 
God's Englishman
by Christopher Hill |
The Five
by Hallie Rubenhold | 
Charlatan
by Pope Brock |
The Wicked Boy
by Kate Summerscale |
Truevine
by Beth Macy | 
Careless People
by Sarah Churchwell |
In 1695, Isaac Newton--already renowned as the greatest mind of his age--made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty's Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner. Thanks to his preternatural skills as a counterfeiter, Chaloner was rapidly rising in London's highly competitive underworld, at a time when organized law enforcement was all but unknown and money in the modern sense was just coming into being. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new warden. In the courts and streets of London--and amid the tremors of a world being transformed by the ideas Newton himself had set in motion--the two played out an epic game of cat and mouse.