What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost is a book about the extraordinary influence of John Milton’s epic poem on the politics of the modern age.

It was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, The Guardian’s Book of the Day (twice), and appeared on the Best Books of 2024 lists for The Financial Times, The Independent, The Big Issue, and Counterfire.

You can find the UK edition here and the US edition here.

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“A remarkable feat of distillation and elucidation…”

—Joe Moshenska, The Observer