A collection of personal writing on books, faith, music, ideas and the occasional rabbit hole.
Desert Island Lists
The books I’d choose if I had to narrow a lifetime’s reading to just ten at a time.
Fiction: Stories, worlds and characters I’d most happily spend the next twenty years revisiting.
My Desert Island Ten: Fiction
Faith, Life & the Human Condition: Books about belief, compassion, shame, hope, responsibility and what it means to be human. The books that have helped me understand faith, grace, other people — and, occasionally, myself.
My Desert Island Ten: Faith, Life & the Human Condition – Somertons Services Ltd
General Non-Fiction: Other lives, wider worlds, and something to laugh about. From Andre Agassi to Alastair Campbell, from Afghanistan to the origins of the universe, these books have most rewarded my curiosity about the world beyond fiction.
My Desert Island Ten: General Non-Fiction – Somertons Services Ltd
Essays & Observations
Why Procurement Leaders Are Often Set Up To Fail
Why accountability without authority is not really accountability at all. A practical look at the gap between savings targets, decision rights and delivery responsibility in modern indirect procurement.
Why Procurement Leaders Are Often Set Up To Fail – Somertons Services Ltd