First you write a sentence: a primer for writing, reading ... and life

Advanced maths has no practical use, and is understood by few.

A symphony can be widely appreciated, but created only by a genius.

Good writing, however, can be written (and read) by anyone if we give it the gift of our time. And a sentence might be as near as many of us will get to orchestrating beauty.

Enter universally praised historian Professor Joe Moran.

Using minimal technical terms, 'First You Write a Sentence' is his unpedantic explanation of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace.