I am the founder of six charities the latest of which is an organisation concerned with mentally ill people in the developing world: www.basicneeds.org
Reading has always been a must for me partly as I travel a great deal and partly as my mother when she was alive was a writer herself. She wrote under her maiden name or pen name of Shirley Deane and was published by John Murray of London.

As I wonder about the world (inspecting our programme work) I do often have a desire to pass a finished book on to someone else and BookCrossing seems a great way to do it. After all you don't quite lose sight of it do you?

Currently I am about to travel in India on a work assignment.