These entertaining verses reveal what hippos say to each other, how hairy apes conduct their affairs, how God lost the planet, and why hotel beds are so annoying.

A short volume of a hundred pages, the book is organised in four sections - Whimsy, Everyday Life, Personal to Me, and A Contrarian's View - all of which allow the author to range over many diverse subjects, sometimes with tongue in cheek, sometimes with self-deprecation, and sometimes - more seriously - protesting the state of the world we live in. The book, designed to be light bedtime reading, may put a smile on your...