Rock Balancing Land Art by Pontus Jansson

Living Next Door to one is one thing.  Knowing another across the Pond is another.

Personality Plus Plus in print and on both radio and TV, Jock was resourceful and unintimidated in his interviews.

You could almost call it a memoir.  He bares his soul, his pride, his doubts, and his guilts.  It’s a great tale of an eventful life.

Even Shirley MacLane liked him “You bring out the most extraordinary maternal instincts in me“

We need another Curmudgeon in print, on Radio and Television to fight for the little guy and the underdogs and disadvantaged.

Webster!  An Autobiography by Jack Webster, 1990 – signed   ISBN 0-88894-706-2

The present is confounded by the future, the future is confounded by the future beyond it, and the memories bubble up in disorder, and the heart is unpredictable.

Because we cannot fly, we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek, and then, after all that, the years go by, the mountains are levelled, the valleys rise, the rivers blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea.

It tells the story of a small town in southern Anatolia and how it fits in to the great upheavals of war, religion and nationalism in the early 1900s.

“Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrows.”

It is a beautifully written, historical war story – detailing the cost of History lessons.

The same author as Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (another “you should read”)

Birds without Wings, Louise de Bernieres, 2004

From Tiny Beginnings in April

Despicable SOBs … and other great stories

The Granddaddy of investigative reporters, George Seldes, renders us a gentleman’s overview of recent history and the characters that shaped it.  

This is an unmuzzled account of events of an observer who was in the right place at the right time. An intimate and personal perspective.  A muckraker par extraordinaire with a great sense of humour.

Witness to a Century, George Seldes, 1987, ISBN 345-33181-8