Rev Mac Bsc : 14 books

Knowledge Tinted Glasses Knowledge Tinted Glasses is really about faith; how it comes about and on what it is based.  Nearly everyone has faith, be it faith in Science, faith in religion or just faith in people, and this book explores the origins of faith and belief. Much of the...

To Son, Love Father is an attempt to give advice I should have been given when much younger. I was read poems by Robbie Burns as the key advice for life, much of which was useful, but not quite specific enough for the sixties and seventies. I did remember to 'conceal myself as well I could from...

The Bright Gold Tornado, is about my fathers not always well thought through inventiveness. It also touches on my difficult relationship with him. The Tornado was supposed to be the solution for this particular eleven year old, but as I was sinking, I wasn't so sure.

Salute Before Dinner is the true, final encounter, between two old ex-servicemen who have run out of time; my uncle and my father. It is truly amazing how this meeting came to be, and if nothing else, it needed to be recorded.

Cry After Sunset explores the damaged relationship between a clever daughter and her father. It is also perhaps a bit cynical about the honesty of politics but in a light hearted manner. It is a play easily performed by a small drama group in a school, or a dramatic society, as it only has two characters,...

The Penultimate Mourning is a difficult father and son story. It is my story and was written after my father had passed away. The beginning of the story is long after the dominoes began to fall, and not long before they finish, and at the point when both could see the last one.

Should I Still Dance, is about the period of my life immediately after having an accident that gave me brain damage. I spent time in a trauma unit in France and then time in a secure dementia ward in England. Once home, I had to set what would have seemed trivial goals, before I left to go on holiday. There is however a funny side.

No Green Car Nation is a book that sorts fact from fiction in many areas concerning cars. It covers electric and hybrid cars, and takes a global view on the damage cars do to the environment. It explains much of the misleading advertising surrounding cars and the attempt to hide their true environmental impact. Progress is not always progress when it comes to the environment.

I was given Steven Hawking's book Brief Answers to the Big Questions as a gift. I delayed reading it for a bit but once I started I had to finish it. I had some spare time so I wrote about the book as it is a true Physics classic.

This book deals with two aspects of food. The first, is how fast is fast food if you consider the time from the begining of purchase to the end of consumption. It makes suggestions to show how you can actually spend less time on food than fast food and have a more nutritious meal. The second part...

This book is the unembellished story of some of my life with my father. Don't read it, if, firstly, you don't want to understand both the good and the bad in someone, and secondly, if you don't want to know in detail how some people die badly. It is a story without the gloss. It is written using text from a book I wrote about my life, but have never published.

This is a collection of light-hearted events where I managed to get myself into then out of difficulty. The practical and the good planners of the world can probably pass on this, but for those who didn't see something coming, it will be familiar territory and might make you smile. However these events formed me as much as the serious ones, so I thought it time to redress the balance.

In this short story, an old teacher has a head on collision that is not his fault. Fortunately, a much loved previous student arrives just after he has crashed. She accompanies him on his last journey.

This is just a collection of writings that didn't fit anywhere else. The first is a true story based on a Saturday spent tutoring. The second is a fun thing I wrote just to make the teachers in the Mathematics department smile. One of my friends, who likes my writing, wanted a story based the existing...