Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has found one of the world’s long-lost great treasures. His find could make his professional reputation – and a lot of money too.

‘An unknown place.’ This was what Michael Frayn’s children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book he sets out to rediscover that lost land...

On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He...