The Rueful Hippopotamus: and Other Light Verse

These entertaining verses reveal what hippos say to each other, how hairy apes conduct their affairs, how God lost the planet, and why hotel beds are so annoying.

A short volume of a hundred pages, the book is organised in four sections - Whimsy, Everyday Life, Personal to Me, and A Contrarian's View - all of which allow the author to range over many diverse subjects, sometimes with tongue in cheek, sometimes with self-deprecation, and sometimes - more seriously - protesting the state of the world we live in. The book, designed to be light bedtime reading, may put a smile on your face; alternatively, it might make you think in a new way about our contemporary culture.