Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of prize-winning books such as Catherine The Great & Potemkin, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Young Stalin, which won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography, the Kreisky Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; Jerusalem: The Biography; The Romanovs; and many more.
Now the master storyteller joins Toppings to give a talk on his epic new history book, The World: A Family History, the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family.