Fabulous reads – Sage advice captured in keepsake book

If I Could Tell You Just One Thing, Richard Reed, Penguin Random House

Author, Richard Reed has found that wise advice given to him has changed his life on at least three occasions.

It has since become his habit to ask anyone “remarkable” for “…their best piece of advice” resulting in his book: If I could tell you just one thing… Encounters with remarkable people and their most valuable advice. (Published by Canongate)

Richard has collected pearls of wisdom from some of the most remarkable, inspiring and game-changing people in the world – in business, tech, philanthropy, politics, sport, art, spirituality, medicine, film, and design.

From Hollywood stars such as Judi Dench and Richard Curtis, to entrepreneurial legends like Richard Branson and Simon Cowell; from sports stars and TV personalities like Andy Murray and James Cordon to political activists and born survivors like Mandela’s Comrades and Katie Piper, Richard has picked some of the world’s most interesting brains to give you a lesson on how to live, how to love, how to create and how to succeed.

What is really entertaining and readable about the book is not only the sage advice he gleaned, but also the context and venue in which he met each person.

So in each chapter he gives his personal insight about the luminaries, sharing his experience and nuggets of information we would not normally know. And he writes well.

Each chapter is complemented by a pen and ink portrait by the award-winning British artist, Samuel Kerr.

This is one of those books you’ll talk about and re-read whenever you feel the need for a little injection of enlightenment or counsel.

Founder of the African Prisons Project Alexander McLean contribution is: “The lowliest-looking person is filled with gifts and talents beyond your imagination. Love such people as yourself.”

Makes you think, doesn’t it?