Reading Matters: You, A Bike and A Road by Eleanor Davis

    Looking out from my desk at work through the long gallery of windows that line my side office –  I  find myself watching the wind catch the tops of the tree branches and how they exalt in the wind’s embrace.  And it stirs my soul: deep and powerful.  It’s the call of the…

Reading Matters “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush”

This book is glorious. Old school. Happy. Terribly British. And I loved it.   Simple premise then – in 1956, aged 36 and longing for adventure, Eric Newby, walked out on his London career in advertising (and dress design). And so began a journey from Mayfair to one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses…