(2003) Book "Cooking for Kings, a Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef" (biography with recipes) Short Books/Faber. ISBN-10: 1904095208
(2006) Book "Beau Brummell" (biography) Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Simon & Schuster (USA) ISBN-10: 0340836997
(2008) Book "Casanova" (biography) Hodder & Stoughton UK Tarcher Penguin USA. ISBN-10: 034092215X
(2012) Book "Mr Foote's Other Leg; Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London" Picador PanMacmillan. ISBN-10: 033051783X
(2008 - 2012) Stage play The Pitmen Painters - playing the art teacher Robert Lyon (and drawing live on stage!), on Broadway, at the National Theatre, London and in the West End