A fortnight ago, in a little break from launching  Rhyme and Reason , I took a young lady for a walk in a woods, and returned with a muddy...

  People like to release animals. They release lions onto the savannah, or orcas into the ocean, or beavers into the wild, or organ-grinders...

  Distinctly tropical I recently discovered that the Seychelles were named after Jean Moreau de Séchelles, a Frenchman, who never set his ga...

  More maligned than malignant I've been writing a new book: a short, simple, light-hearted history of English poetry. And I've near...

  I've a written a new book. It's a children's book and it's called A Riddle for a King . It's suitable for those aged b...

  Start with something simple. We've got the verb give, which we all know, and the thing that you give is a gift. They're quite obvi...

  Today is the first of May, or that's what Shakespeare thought, as did all proper Englishmen. May, for him, ran from May 11th to June 1...