The Unauthorized Version by Robin Lane Fox

PAST PRESENT - What's new in History, SPIRIT MATTERS - Reaching for the Divine

The Bible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible) is the most widely distributed collection of literary texts in human culture. The Greek word βιβλία (biblía) means ‘books’. Its two parts, The Old and New Testaments between them comprise 66 books. This number itself is contentious because there is no one ‘Bible’. Different faith traditions have fixed their ‘canon’ of Scripture in different ways. It is nevertheless the […]

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The Guilty

CRIMINALLY MINDED - Tales of the behaviourally challenged

David Baldacci (http://davidbaldacci.com/) began writing  stories as a child, when his mother gave him a notebook in which to record them.  He wrote for more than two decades, penning short stories and later screenplays  without much success. While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking  three years to write Absolute  Power. Published in 1996,

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Gut

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE - Science & Technology

As I write on 19 December 2015 people across the world are preparing to put an organ in their bodies through an assault course. This annual ritual is known as ‘Christmas’. The organ in question is not much discussed in polite conversation, and preferably not at a sacred time of the year. It is the

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Ted Hughes by Jonathan Bate

LIVES WELL LIVED? A pick from biography and memoir

2015 has brought us a whopping, meticulously researched biography of Ted Hughes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_hughes). Academic superstar Jonathan Bate (http://www.jonathanbate.com/) has published extensively on Shakespeare and written the life of John Clare. In Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life he offers what is sure to be the standard biography of Hughes for decades to come. It is also sure

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