Popular history is a two-edged sword, at least for serious historians who want to write serious history yet at the same time at a level accessible to a wider audience. We are all too familiar with attempts at popular history that fail because they either overdo the popular at the detriment of the history, or jam-pack their volume with so much detail that the interested lay reader feels totally overwhelmed and puts it aside. Patricia Fara, in her biography of Isaac Newton's London years, manages to find the right balance. Hers is a richly detailed yet very accessible narrative displaying Newton's post-Cambridge career, from 1696 until his death in 1727. By then he had become Sir Isaac, President of the Royal Society, Master of the Royal Mint, as beloved by Princess Caroline of Ansbach and his protégé John Conduitt as he was despised by the Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed—for good reasons, obviously. Fara brings all these figures to life, and many more, in the local context of their London lives and in the global context of the British Empire. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful black-and-white and coloured plates, Life after Gravity provides an excellent introduction to the second half of Newton's career that will be of interest to historians of science and economy alike, and to the interested lay reader.