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Okay. I've been having this discusion for the nth time about literature vs that other stuff here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show.html?id=121570569&page=2 and here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/129471096Since I have written a whole book about it, albeit a small one, it seems a bit silly...
Hands up anyone who’s played chess with a Nazi war criminal. And did you win? Looks around. So that’s just me, is it?I go to visit the home of one of Australia’s top players for many years. He loves chess. All he has ever wanted to do is play chess. All he wants to do now, as I come to talk to him f...
Dear Ms. Chua, On an afternoon where my bridge partner had to cancel at the last minute, I looked through some books on a shelf in a side room. Serendipitiously and gloriously I found Fair Play or Foul. As mathematicians would say: elegant. Right to the point and way way ahead of its time. A plea...
I had never even heard of Maud Jean Franc, a woman who moved to South Australia in the mid 19th century and produced a dozen or so novels generally described in condescending tones as "sentimental" and "religious". But my friend Cathy had written this book about her, and I was curious to know why. S...
My friend Cathy has been making diligent attempts to improve my unimpressive bridge skills, and even was kind enough to send me a copy of this book, which she wrote in the early 90s. I'm not enough of a bridge player to appreciate it fully, but it was still very interesting. I read it at the same ti...
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