Michael White Books in Order

White uses the strange cases of The X-Files as a springboard into real science, from aliens and mutations to paranormal claims and conspiracy thinking. It is a quick, curious guide to what might be possible, and what almost certainly is not.

White's Newton biography looks past the schoolbook legend to the difficult, driven man behind gravity, optics, and calculus. It also gives full weight to his alchemy, religious obsessions, and bitter rivalries, showing how tangled his mind and life really were.

This biography argues that Leonardo da Vinci belonged in the history of science as much as art. White follows the notebooks, experiments, and restless curiosity behind the legend, while also tracing the personal life and politics around him.

White traces Tolkien from childhood and war service to Oxford and the long making of Middle-earth. The book focuses on the life behind The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, showing how scholarship, faith, and experience fed the fiction.

Written with John Gribbin, this biography pairs Hawking's life with clear explanations of the science that made him famous. It follows his work, illness, ambition, and growing public profile without losing sight of the person behind the legend.

White follows Lewis from Belfast childhood to Oxford scholar, Christian writer, and the mind behind Narnia. The book also explores his friendships, wartime fame, and late marriage, keeping the man as visible as the public figure.

A brisk life of Isaac Asimov, this book looks at the man behind the robots, the Foundation novels, and the astonishing output. White tracks both the scientific career and the writing life that made Asimov a central name in science fiction.

A pair of ritual murders shocks Oxford, drawing Laura Niven and photographer Philip Bainbridge into a case the police cannot explain. Their search leads to Isaac Newton, occult history, and a conspiracy that may still be killing in the present.

Framed as a conversation over coffee, this accessible guide lets Newton explain gravity, light, calculus, and the wider world he lived in. It mixes science, biography, politics, rivalry, and occult curiosity in an easy, chatty format.

While examining Medici remains in Florence, Edie Granger and her uncle find signs that the official story may be false. Their discovery sends them into a dangerous hunt through Renaissance history, hidden identities, and a secret someone will kill to protect.

When bombs tear through a packed Los Angeles conference center, Senator Kyle Foreman is left trapped inside while a killer known as the Dragon closes in. E-Force must reach him before fire, collapsing floors, or the assassin do.

A charred skeleton found on a London building site carries an emerald ring and a link to a 500-year-old plot against Queen Elizabeth I. DCI Jack Pendragon follows the trail into a string of gruesome murders shaped by Borgia-era obsession.

The grand opening of an underwater hotel off Fiji turns catastrophic when massive tremors leave guests stranded 100 metres below the surface. E-Force races to rescue the survivors, only to learn the disaster may have been engineered.

DCI Pendragon investigates murders staged to echo famous surrealist artworks, each crime scene more grotesque than the last. As the pattern deepens, he uncovers a modern killer working in the shadow of Jack the Ripper.

E-Force barely returns from one mission before terror strikes again, trapping survivors in Dubai's Cloud Tower and a train in the Channel Tunnel. Split across two disasters, the team discovers the attacks are also part of a personal revenge campaign.

Journalist Mark Bretton expects a lightweight profile, but regressive hypnosis throws him back into the Kennedy era and toward his own violent death. Past life memories, political secrets, and present-day watchers turn the story into a deadly hunt for the truth.

A strange discovery in the North Atlantic points back to a secret lost with the Titanic. As modern investigators chase the truth, the old disaster starts to look less like history and more like a threat.

Private opens a Sydney office, and the launch party is interrupted by a bloodied stranger and a kidnapping gone wrong. Craig Gisto and his team soon face multiple cases, including a brutal murder trail through the city's wealthy eastern suburbs.

Marine archaeologists Kate Wetherall and Lou Bates uncover Amelia Earhart's plane and a sealed cylinder that may hold the key to Einstein's hidden defence research. Powerful interests close in fast, turning a historic discovery into a global race for control.

A major terrorist cell targets one of London's busiest airports, and retired SAS captain Matt Bates and ex-Delta Force officer Chaz Shoeman are caught in the middle. Stopping the attack becomes a brutal race against time, and thousands of lives hang on it.