Andrew Robinson
is the author of some twenty-five books. They include The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms, and Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts, as well as a biography of Michael Ventris (The Man Who Deciphered Linear B). A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, he is a regular book reviewer for newspapers, magazines and journals.