I would like to wish all my readers the very best for the year ahead. Thank you again for your interest in my writing. I never fail to be surprised by the fact that they continue to sell so well simply by word of mouth! I have other projects coming in due course. Stay tuned […]
I was Joshua Bertolotti’s guest on this podcast, talking about Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man.
I was Joshua Bertolotti’s guest on this podcast, talking about Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man.
The next title in the “Classics for the Modern Man” series has finally been released! It’s been a couple of years or thereabouts since the last one in the series was published. “If I had more time, I would have made it shorter” is a saying that has been variously attributed to Cicero, Blaise Pascal, […]
I’m very pleased to be able to announce the launch of this redesigned website. It is more elegant and simpler to navigate, and it has the great advantage that readers can directly view pdf excerpts of all the books. Feel free to have a look around.
As societies become more divided, free speech tends to come under increasing attack. The temptation is always to restrict the ‘wrongspeech’ of opponents. If my opponents’ speech is wrong, so goes this line of thinking, why should they be allowed to speak at all? What benefit to society by allowing it? And what possible loss through […]
I’m excited to announce that the latest book in the ‘Classics for the Modern Man’ series, Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man, has finally been released and is available on Amazon here in both Kindle and paperback formats. This work follows on from Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man and Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man by introducing […]
Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man has reached the No. 1 bestseller spot on two Amazon charts and top ten in another: No. 1 in Philosophy History & Survey No. 1 in History & Surveys of Philosophy Top ten in Philosophy It is a great satisfaction that this work is able to introduce some of […]
I’m pleased to report that the first three volumes of Shakespeare Tales have been published in paperback this weekend. These are: Shakespeare Tales: Comedies Shakespeare Tales: Tragedies Shakespeare Tales: Tragicomedies The fourth volume, Shakespeare Tales: Roman Tales, will be released in paperback next weekend. The fifth and final volume, Shakespeare Tales: Histories, will be released […]
Marcus Aurelius is one of the most widely appreciated of ancient philosophers. The work for which he is best known, the Meditations, occupies a special place not only in our intellectual and cultural history but also – for those who have read him – as an enduring source of ethical guidance. When I came to write Classic […]