Books Books Books!

I love books.  I think I always have.  As objects themselves not just repositories of thought, feeling and perspective.  I've published a range of books and articles now and don't plan to stop!  The three I am most proud of are below, if you want to see a full list then follow this link.

I also love recommending books and there is a new site that gives part of the profits from online sales to independent bookshops. I’ve set up a page there and created some lists of books I love and recommend. Each list has a theme and just 5 books so it is not too overwhelming but will help you find your next awesome read. You can find my ‘Books with Soul’ bookshop.org page here.

This is my latest book, offering a carefully curated selection of my poetry from over the last 10 years; and sections of short prose to dip in to and longer prose pieces to explore.

It brings together work published previously elsewhere and other pieces you won’t find anywhere else.

At its heart, this is a book to help us all to return home to ourselves, to find nourishment and heart-opening reminders of what it is to be human today.

The Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese spiritual text has been a valuable guide to me over the years and is the most succinct expression of some of the fundamental truths common in all traditions I have found.  I set out to write about those truths and ended up writing my own version of the text.  A little more accessible for the modern reader and with my own brand of humour woven in, it is truly the core of my light hearted, deep rooted philosophy.

A few years ago I was doing a very varied set of work across many different organisations.  All of it was with leaders of one sort or another but some were CEO's and senior leaders of large corporations, others were leaders in health and social care, still others exploring the field of sustainability.  In my varied work I was seeing interconnections which were helping me to find some sense of sanity in the face of an increasingly scary and chaotic world.  I wanted to share some of these connections in a digestible form, and one which enabled others to take the work forwards.  This is the product of that journey.