the last biography of Victoria but it is certainly the most interesting and original in a long time." Wilson's Hitler: A Short Biography was criticised by the historian Richard J. Evans in a review in the New Statesman for factual inaccuracies and lack of original research and analysis, as well as personal biases. In his review of The Laird of Abbotsford for Cencrastus, David McKie observed that "Concluding with Chesterton that the superficial impression of the world is by far the deepest, Wilson underpins his notions of Scott with the same paradoxical hope." Wilson's biography Charles Darwin, Victorian Mythmaker (2017), was criticised by John van Wyhe in New Scientist for confusing Darwin's theory of natural selection with Lamarckism at one point, as well as other scientific, historical and editorial errors. Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian called it a "cheap attempt to ruffle feathers", with a dubious grasp of science and attempted character assassination. In the Evening Standard, Adrian Woolfson wrote that "while for the greater part a lucid, elegantly written and thought-provoking social and intellectual history", Wilson's "speculations on evolutionary theory" produce a book that is "fatally flawed, mischievous, and ultimately misleading". Steve Jones, an emeritus professor of genetics of University College London, commented in The Sunday Times: "In the classic mould of the contrarian, he despises anything said by mainstream biology in favour of marginal and sometimes preposterous theories." The geneticist and former editor of Nature, Adam Rutherford, called the book "deranged" and said Wilson "would fail GCSE biology catastrophically." Bibliography Books Non-fiction The Laird of Abbotsford: A View of Sir Walter Scott (1980) The Life of John Milton: A Biography (1983) Hilaire Belloc: A Biography (1985) How Can We Know? (1985) Penfriends from Porlock (1988) Tolstoy: A Biography (1988) C. S. Lewis: A Biography (1990) Against Religion: Why We Should Live Without It (1991) Jesus: A Life (1992) The Faber Book of Church and Clergy (editor) (1992) The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor (1993) Paul: The Mind of the Apostle (1997) God's Funeral: The Decline of Faith in Western Civilization (1999) The Victorians (2002) Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her (2003) London: A Short History (2004) After the Victorians (2005) Betjeman (2006) Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007, illustrated by Barry Moser) Our Times (2008) Dante in Love (2011) The Elizabethans (2011) Hitler: A Short Biography (2011) Victoria: A