Xenophon's 'Hellenica' (here translated as 'A History of My Times') covers 411 to 362 BC. A period which begins with the fall of Athens...

'It seems wrong to me systematically to equate expressiveness with dynamics: to play each crescendo as loudly as possible does not...

'They are the Gold Star children, war's innocent victims, and their pain shimmers across the years pure and undimmed. They pass through...

It's difficult to judge a piece written for the stage by reading the written word, but my impression is that Derek Walcott's adaptation...

This is not really a bad book. The story is well told, the ideas and characters fairly interesting, everything is wrapped up in a...

Air had always flowed under racing cars, but it was not until 1977 that a racing car appeared that really took advantage of it. By...

This is the story of Jean-Francois Champollion who deciphered the lost language of the Ancient Egyptians. It is almost as much the story...

History, they say, is written by the victors. That being so 'The Civil War' should be taken with a large dose of salt. Here is Caesar...

The Trojan War almost ended when Hector stepped out of the Trojan lines and challenged the Greeks to nominate a hero to fight with him...

'... a man who occupies himself with servile tasks proves by the very pains which he devotes to them that he is indifferent to higher...

I should begin this with a warning; any history book from 1963 is bound to have been overtaken by more recent discoveries. In fact, I...

"If the wolves come out of the walls, then it's all over." "What's all over?" asked Lucy. "It," said her mother. There are wolves living...

This is a great book to read in the foggy autumn evenings, when it's easy to imagine Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show coming to...

This is the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and how his radical idea that the Earth goes around the Sun changed the World. The book is well...

This is not a book I can recommend; it is comprehensive and detailed, but it is often confusingly written and plain dull. If you come in...

As has been frequently observed conductors are the strangest of classical musicians, they make no sound and yet are frequently the most...

Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. Leibniz, 1703 Risk is very much part of...

This is the second volume of Logue's Homer adaptation, and like its predecessor 'War Music' it is simply stunning. It adapts the first...

This is a Christian sword and sorcery fantasy and there is nothing wrong with that except that the author doesn't let you forget it for a...

Meet feisty Sally Lockhart, sixteen years old, totally ignorant of literature, history and the arts, but she can run a company, make...