Mad no more

If you enjoyed Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crawthorne, you'll love Alexander the Corrector - the 'tormented genius who unwrote the Bible'. Written in a similar vein (Simon Winchester has given the book a commendation), this is the story of Alexander Cruden who compiled Cruden's Concordance, which, though 2.5 million words long, is still in print 300 years later.

Roger Carswell