Neil Forsyth: 10 books

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Méliès and what to the Lumière brothers. He then tightens his focus on those plays that include some explicit magical or supernatural...

The book offers extensive lists of links and sources useful for touring cyclists whether first timers or knobbly kneed veterans: Accommodation - types; How to book ahead; costs; Who speaks English? How do we find the hotel? Bike Hire Cycle Clubs Emergencies: Insurance, accidents; theft; rabies, mosquitoes; Equipment...

This guide takes the hard work out of planning a holiday cycling up the Rhine, 1100 km (700 miles) from Hook of Holland to Basle in Switzerland. The River Rhine runs from the Swiss Alps to the Dutch sea coast. The tour starts from the Rhine estuary in the Netherlands, twists around, under and over...

“Cycling the River Rhine from Basel to the North Sea” starts in Basel and basically follows the left bank of the Rhine through Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Speyer, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Worms, Mainz, the Rhine Gorge, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Düssseldorf, Nijmegen, Rotterdam to the Hook of...

Lake Constance is one of Germany's most popular cycling areas. This guide describes not only the lakeside path, but also gives a series of excursions into Thurgau in Switzerland, down to the Rhine Falls in Schaffhausen and up to historic Ravensburg.The book includes information on back...

The Romantic Road cycle route in Germany is an excellent waymarked network of designated cycleways, quiet country roads, and good tracks through field and forest which link Würzburg in the north with Füssen in the south. The cyclist travels from Würzburg's renaissance style through ancient...

Swiss Cycle Route 3, the North-South Route, leads from Basle on the borders of France and Germany over the Jura Mountains, through the lakes of Central Switzerland , climbs up over the Alps via the St. Gotthard Pass to drop down through the Levantina to Bellizona where the route climbs again before...

Elliot Castro was a gifted outsider, a working-class kid with ambitions who wanted to live the high life but lacked the money to do so. Until, at the tender age of sixteen, he worked out how to use the credit card system to his advantage. Identifying the banks' security weaknesses, utilising his intelligence...

John Milton has usually been regarded as 'the other great poet' in English literature, after Shakespeare. He is the only one of the world's great poets also to have been actively engaged in politics. A radical Protestant and staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during...

BBC TV and Radio's Bob Servant, self-styled 'hero of Dundee', addresses life's problems for you, and offers practical solutions you won't find anywhere else.