Books
The Lion House
Christopher’s pioneering work of eyewitness history, currently in development as a major TV drama, was a Times, Sunday Times and New Yorker book of the year. It was described as ‘exquisite’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘gripping’ by the New York Times. In the words of Clare Messud, 'the finest historical fiction - Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, for example - renders the strange grippingly familiar; so too do those rare historians whose novelistic understanding of their subject brings it to life…De Bellaigue has done this.'
Published by The Bodley Head and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022
Flying Green
Christopher's latest book, Flying Green, introduces the entrepreneurs and idealists who are working to decarbonise a notoriously carbon-intensive industry. The Financial Times described Flying Green as ‘far more engaging than conventional accounts of efforts to make flying safer for the planet’, while Bill McKibben commented, 'planetary mobility has been a remarkable gift, and…a remarkable curse as well…this is a fine catalogue of possible ways out.'
The Islamic Enlightenment
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Orwell and Nayef al-Rodhan prizes, named a book of year by the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Wall Street Journal.
Published by The Bodley Head and Liveright, 2017
Patriot of Persia
Winner of the Washington Institute Prize for books on the Middle East.
Published by The Bodley Head and Harper Collins, 2012
Rebel Land
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Published by Bloomsbury and Penguin Press, 2010
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs
Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.
Published by Harper Collins, 2004
The Struggle for Iran
A book of essays published by New York Review Books.
Published by New York Review Books, 2007