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
ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR
By Julia Keay
HarperCollins. 269 pages. £16.99
ISBN 0 00 713195 X