Peter Frankopan Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Peter Frankopan is a published British author. He was born in England on March 22, 1971.

He attended Cambridge, where he studied history at Jesus College. There, he was Foundation Scholar and Schiff Scholar. He also won the History Prize in 1993. This is when he took an outstanding first class degree.

He did his Ph.D at Corpus Christi College, where he got a Senior Scholarship before going to Worcester College in 1997 as a Junior Research Fellow. He has been the Senior Research Fellow since 2000 and also works as the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. Peter is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Asiatic Society.

He has held visiting Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard) and Princeton. He has also lectured at different universities all over the globe. On a regular basis, Peter writes for the national and international press about current affairs, as well as about how history can help provide a context for understanding the present. His work has done very well and has been translated into a dozen languages.

The author chairs a collection of family businesses abroad. This includes A Curious Group of Hotels, which he established with his wife Jessica in 1999. He is actively involved with many different charities in the areas of education, gender studies, international development, and classical music. He belongs to the Companions of the Guild of Benefactors at Cambridge University along with his wife Jessica. He has been a Governor of Wellington College since 2006. He is also a UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies and a Bye-Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge.

Frankopan also chairs the Frankopan Fund. It has given over a hundred scholarships and awards to young scholars from Croatia who study at leading academic institutions in the U.S., U.K., and Europe. He is a chorister at Westminster Cathedral as a boy, a music scholar at school, and a choral scholar at Cambridge. Peter is also a musician and has recorded albums as both singer and instrumentalist.

Peter is also a sportsman and has represented Croatia internationally at cricket. He plays for the Authors CC, a team of writers whose members have also included Sir Arthur Conan Coyle. He released a book on Cricket in 2013 that was named one of The Guardian’s Books of the Year. In 2019, he received the Calliope Prize of the German Emigration Center.

For 2016 to 2018, his Songlines audio channel aired where he chose his favorite pieces of world music as part of the In-Flight Entertainment system in British Airways. In 2018, The Silk Road was picked as part of the Read to Lead program in Pakistan to encourage literacy. It also served as inspiration for a new character that was featured in the mini-series The Vikings. He has also collaborated with Katie Melua and the students at Oxford in order to come up with music that was inspired by The Silk Roads.

The Silk Roads: Illustrated Edition is a 2021 book by Peter Frankopan. The first book originally came out in 2015 and was picked as The Daily Telegraph’s History Book of the Year 2015 and hit number one in the Sunday Times’ non-fiction charts. It was named one of ten books that will change how readers see the world by The Times and also picked by the Sunday Times as one of the Books of the Decade.

This new history of the world explores the connections that are made by disease, trade, people, religion, war, adventure, science, and technology in this unique book about how the east got married to the west with a voyage at its heart that takes place along the Silk Roads.

From world laws from the older world that were put down by King Hammurabi to the Persian empire to the huns, the rise of Europe, two different world wars and how politics are today, The Silk Roads is able to move through history and time, pulling together threads from different empires, peoples, and continents into a history of the globe that pulls stories from each corner of society. Illustrated by Neil Packer in a fantastic way, this is a world history that you must have as part of your personal library!

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History is a 2023 book by Peter Frankopan. It was a global bestseller and was picked by The Times as the History Book of the Year. It was a Book of the Year for different publications as well, such as the Guardian/Observer, the Financial Times, the Times & Sunday Times, The Week, BBC History, The Independent, The New Yorker, The Hindu’s Frontline Magazine, Waterstones, Geographical, Country Life, The New Zealand Herald, and more.

Others have had great things to say about this work too. The Sunday Times called it a ‘vast, learned and timely work’, while Tribune India has stated that ‘this is a book every academician and policymaker must read’.

It was nominated in 2023 for a Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Readers’ Favorite History & Biography. This is a new history book that shows how climate change has shaped how civilizations develop and collapse across time.

Global warming is one of the greatest risk that mankind is up against today. Sea levels rise, temps go up, and natural disasters get worse, and our environmental crisis feels tough to predict or understand. Climate change and its effects are not new as the author argues that nature has always played a role in how history is written. It turns out that climate change and its influences have been a constant along with humanity, from South America and the Moche civilization’s fall to eruptions in English that helped bring about the fall of the Ottoman empire.

The author explains how the Vikings came about thanks to crop failure, why cotton price collapse from unusual climate patterns could have led to regime change in 11th century Baghdad, and why western frontier expansion in North America was affected by 18th century solar flare activity.

Frankopan continually shows that when past empires have not acted sustainably, they have met with catastrophic ends. This is an incredible, historically written book with scientific research that nonfiction fans must get their hands on. Check out The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan to find out more!