My goodreads

I’d include this in a lifelong “must read” I really liked this book, albeit, the story is of an awful event in history, the Siege of St Petersburg. The siege is one of many stains on history. It lasted 872 days and result in the deaths…

I read this book because I’d seen an excellent New Statesman article that Edward Docx had written on Dr Jim Down https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2020/05/peak (Jim’s dad was my first consultant when I qualified). The copy of …

I really liked this book. It took a while to get used to Saramago’s writing style but towards the end, and certainly the last third of the book I was hooked and couldn’t wait to keep reading. A quote from the Independent on the cover say…

What a fantastic steal from a friend’s shelves! A wonderful interplay of the dedication and discipline needed to both write and run. Murakami has done both in spades. He certainly excels at writing and from this account is pretty darn ac…

The standard Wodehouse excellence! A series of short stories with some loose connection between some of them. Based in New York and UK and Jeeves as ever is as helpful and inadvertently unhelpful as ever when things go awry. There are a …

I really enjoyed this book. It’s not the most gripping page turner but it’s good and towards the ending the themes ring out loud. It’s a great book for thinking about loyalty, friendship, loss and purpose. It’s difficult to write a ful…

This is a good read. I don’t know how realistic the legal points are but it doesn’t matter. Reading the author’s notes I assume she’s been supported in researching that detail. It sounds as if it could have been written about many recen…

This is a fascinating book. It’s fundamental premise is that to succeed there needs to be a good spread of diversity within groups making decisions. In my professional life I’m certainly familiar with a lack of diversity and even awaren…

I listened to this on audible. I think there are a lot of great tips in it but the reader (not Tim Ferris) annoyed me a bit and it came across a bit smug. That’s perhaps not fair on the reader and should be levied at Tim Ferris. That sai…