Richard Cohen

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About The Author

 Richard Cohen is the author of By the Sword, Chasing the Sun, and How to Write Like Tolstoy. The former publishing director of two leading London publishing houses, he has edited books that have won the Pulitzer, Booker, and Whitbread/Costa prizes, while twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. He has written for most UK quality newspapers as well as for The New York Times Book Review and The Wall Street Journal, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Connect with him on Facebook @RichardCohenAuthor and Twitter @AboutRichard.     

Books by Richard Cohen

Chasing the Sun

The Epic Story of the Star That Gives us Life

By Richard Cohen
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUNis a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life. Richard Cohen, apply...
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By the Sword

Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians

By Richard Cohen
‘A seminal book about swordplay’ Rick Broadbent, The Times
 
‘The definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art’ Simon Winchester
 
The classic history of sword fighting, as told by national sabre champion and Olympic fencer Richard Cohen.
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