{"product_id":"9781905006113","title":"In the Fullness of Time: Reflections on Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘In the fullness of time\u003c\/em\u003e’ is a book for dipping into. There is no requirement to read the pages in any special order. Rather, these fifty short essays should be seen as a set of pictures for the mind to visit, savour and then move on. If I have got it right, each visit will engage the imagination, jog the memory and stimulate ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach essay describes my reflections on some everyday event. They are arranged in eight, themed sections, each introduced by a Merrily Harpur illustration. You may find some of my observations quirky or unexpected, but all are personal to me and reflect the insights of a 75-year-old man who is ten years into retirement and only now learning how to express himself in plain English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a doctor, teacher and scientist, I wrote tens of thousands of words on matters medical or scientific in which bias, imprecision and free association were taboo. In retirement, I have shed the constraints of such writing and here are selected products of my new-found freedom. The essays here are a selection from over 230 blog posts that have been published on greyhares.org since 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A self-confessed snooper with an insatiable curiosity about everyone he encounters – the stranger the better – Joe Collier describes the pleasures, irritations, mishaps and oddities of everyday life with a humane and humorous eye”, Lee Langley (winner of the Writers’ Guild Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The London Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049214460144,"sku":"9781905006113","price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781905006113_p0.jpg?v=1763614325","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781905006113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}