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Kings, Coronets, and Accounting

Kings, Coronets, and Accounting

May 12, 2023

Kings, Coronets, and Accounting If, like me, you are into history and like a bit of pageantry, with added cake and fizz, this May’s recent Coronation was an intriguing watch.  I felt there’s still a role for this curious system of retaining an unelected head of state,...
Tracking The Secrets of Life

Tracking The Secrets of Life

Apr 5, 2023

Tracking The Secrets of Life I’ve enjoyed reading Book One of a four-part series, The Secrets of Life from Big Bang to Trump, by business guru SS O’Connnor. No discussion yet of where Mr Trump fits into the evolutionary scale, but Book One, How did life end up with...
Vicarious Thrills and Spills

Vicarious Thrills and Spills

Jan 27, 2023

Vicarious Thrills and Spills I think I’m developing a taste for book reviewing from my sofa this winter. Most-recently sent a new murder mystery The Chanteuse from Cape Town by John Constable (published by Ink!), to report on for an online book tour organised by...
Other Voices

Other Voices

Jan 9, 2023

Other Voices Being read aloud to is such a treat. Starting a new year with a new project is a tonic. I’m indulging in both. Every book I read in silence to myself, comes freighted with the colours, echoes and images it conjures in my mind; and each character’s...
Touching the past

Touching the past

Nov 8, 2022

Touching the past It’s 100 years this November since Egyptologist Howard Carter found King Tutankhamun’s c.3,300 year old tomb beneath the sands of the Valley of the Kings. An elderly man I met by chance, in my youth, once told me about his old friend Carter taking...