Michael Haag

Cover for the Simon and Schuster US edition of Michael Haag's Inferno Decoded. Click on the image to enlarge . Inferno Decoded , set...

'First of all, I never get down to writing except at dead of night when it is absolutely quiet and deep silence reigns over all ... in s...

Michael Haag's The Templars: History and Myth has been published in France and Belgium by Ixelles éditions with the coopera...

Noli Me Tangere by Fra Angelico Today is Easter Sunday in the calendar of the Western Churches (in the Orthodox Churches Easter Sunday w...

Under the headline 'Book of a Lifetime' the novelist Jim Crace has written an article in The Independent saying how much he enjoyed...

'Helen Nicholson explores an unusual, but contentious, account of the effect that the crusades had on the Middle East.'  So run...

BBC History Magazine has done a podcast of Michael Haag talking about his new book, The Tragedy of the Templars . The podcast can be liste...

The Crusades have always excited political controversy, both at the time and since. They have sometimes been used as a stick to beat th...

Report in today's Bookseller:   Profile has announced a new book from Michael Haag exploring the background of Dan Brown’s latest n...

Peter Baldwin of the Delos Press, who was sitting in the audience at the Lawrence Durrell centenary conference in London in June 2012, has g...

These beautifully designed Russian-language volumes of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet , translated by Vadim Mikhailin, were pu...

'The arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday October 13, 1307 is said to have called down a terrible curse on the kings of France.  Th...

'I am Irish on my mother’s side, and half on my father’s side’, Lawrence Durrell said in a 1970 television interview.  It was a story ...

Clea, the Alexandrian woman who inspired the character of the same name in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet , was a painter ...

The following excerpt and photograph are from an article that appeared in The New York Times. This and much else will be covered in Michael ...

The final cover for The Tragedy of the Templars The Tragedy of the Templars The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States The Trage...

Lawrence Durrell's mother-in-law Claire Vincendon. Lawrence Durrell's third wife was Claude Vincendon.  Clau...

The skull of Mary Magdalene in the crypt at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in Provence The canonical gospels say little about Mary...

Panic Spring published in the United States by Covici-Friede, first edition 1937 'Charles Norden', the author of  Panic Spring ...

'Ah! All will be truly exquisite when Alexandria is converted to nudism.'  So went the song in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1931. Th...

First edition published 4 June 1924. In their lifetimes books pass through many hands.  Sometimes it is possible, and ...

Two young Slovene women in Alexandria. In his film Aleksandrinke , Metod Pevec, a Slovenian documentary filmmaker, has told the moving s...