Adrienne Mayor 'Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs. Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World' Those looking for an...

This is an interesting and important book. With the aid of computer modelling and some mathematics Robert Axelrod shows how co-operation...

What links a mass grave in the Caucasus; a mummified prehistoric family and a strange disease causing women to miscarry and then...

The greatest compliment that I can pay this book is that as soon as I had finished it, I immediately began to re-read it. This book is...

Filled with enthusiasm I also pulled this unread 'HDM' book off my shelves. Frankly, it would have been better to have left it there....

I was lucky enough to see this stage version of Philip Pullman's trilogy performed at the National Theatre in London just before...

As the founder of Lotus Colin Chapman is a legendry and heroic figure in the history of motor sport. An engineer, designer and team...

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian Suetonius would have had plenty of access to the imperial archives, not to say a first-hand...

I think that Raymond E. Feist's greatest achievement is his involvement in the game 'Betrayal at Krondor'. This was a computer adventure...

If the preceding book is an example of how not to write for the lay reader, this is a triumphant example of how to. Aaron Copland deals...

This is an interesting book and I would like to whole heartedly recommend it, but like a lot of modern popular books on science it...

This is a short story set a few years after the events of 'The Amber Spyglass'. Although only a quick read it is certainly worth the...

This is the accompanying book to the Channel 4 series of the same name. I found the series promised far more than it delivered;...

Time and again during this book I asked myself 'How could they be so stupid?' Perhaps the recent history of the Middle East really is...

I've already related the virtues of Logue's retelling of Homer. This is a worthy addition to his canon. Recommended. Faber and Faber, 39...

Unlike the previous book this is a work of fiction. Mahfouz his picked is way through the available evidence to produce a coherent whole....

Nefertiti is probably antiquity's most famous face; her bust, now housed in Berlin instantly recognizable. Surprisingly, the woman...

This is a book for which the term 'so so' could have been coined. It's not bad, far from it; but then it's not all that great either....

This excellent book chronicles Mozart's final year. A year in which he wrote 'The Magic Flute', 'La clemenza di Tito' and the unfinished...

This is rubbish do not waste your time. Orbit, 620 very tedious pages