Zen and the Art…

  Enjoyed the first half of this book – one that I’ve never properly read before Liked the idea that you are never dedicated to something you have confidence in – we don’t think about the sun rising tomorrow In this time of changing and...

Willful Misconduct

This is the story of Pan Am Flight 806 which crashed at Samoa in January 1974. I read the book because I would have been on this flight with my mother and brothers if our travel plans back from Auckland hadn’t changed. I hadn’t realised this until my...

An Equal Music

I enjoyed this story about a quartet even if I did want to take the leading male character to task more than once. Seth asks the question about how a deaf piano player – the female lead character – would perform and even poses the question whether she...

The Descent of Man

    As you’d expect with Grayson Perry, there’s also some powerful art in this book. Do we fall prey to the dictats of “The Department of Masculinity”? Are men really equipping themselves for a world of peace as opposed to a world of...