Previous biographies of Lord Byron have seemingly dissected every inch of the English poet’s fascinating and mythical life, but Antony Peattie offers readers something completely different.
Real history gets a mind-blowing makeover in the latest work by Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires, which reimagines the 1519 meeting of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma with the conquistador Hernán Cortés.