Steven Hunt

I've been reviewing some of the more recently-issued Latin novellas. A list can be found below. The idea is that for a student to develop reading fluency, they should receive as much input in the target language as possible. Because there are no easy Latin original authors to read at the beginners' level, modern authors have composed easy readers to get them started. Typically, these booklets or novellas are short (achievable), heavily illustrated (think dual-coding), have in

The third instalment in Boyd’s detective trilogy featuring Gabriel Dax, the nonchalant travel writer, British spy and occasional double agent, sends our unlikely hero on yet more unexpected escapades in the service of British intelligence. It's 1964 and more Cambridge spies have been unmasked. From Los Angeles and Moscow to Leningrad and the tiny Greek island of Icarios, Dax travels ostensibly in pursuit of material for his writing, but in reality at the behest of the mysteri

Agrippa, the new novel by Robert Harris, is a supposed autobiography of the famous Roman general Marcus Agrippa, right hand man and personal friend of the Emperor Augustus, and military genius behind many of his victories, including the Battle of Actium fought against Anthony and Cleopatra in 31BC which, as they say, changed the direction of history forever. The Augustus portrayed here is very much an antidote to that portrayed in the BBC I, Claudius TV series, where he comes