Plus he is cultur historian and author of detective stories. He is born in 1943 and he studied in Durham, London and Rom, Italy. Later he wrote for the New York Times and the Observer plus he wrote a book, which was awarded with a prize. More nonfiction books and novels came into being between 1973 and today. Since 1989 he is a scientific assistant at a Cambridge University Institute. Today he is living in London and in France.