Dostoyevsky famously said: ‘The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.’ Winston Churchill said, ‘The m...

My mind has been in the eighteenth century again. This is a bad habit. I studied the eighteenth century as an undergradu...

It was a very long time coming but it is here at last! Yesterday was publication day! I must confess to thinking that the day would never co...

Those of us who have been watching “The Luminaries” know exactly where gold comes from. It’s found by a ragged creature in a broad-bri...

It’s hard to write or speak right now without mentioning Covid, so I’m not even going to try to avoid the subject. Here’s the question all w...

                               Jean Giono born in Manosque in 1895 and died in the same village in 1970. I am frequently asked who m...