Summer reading: inspiration & food for thought

These summer reading suggestions are a little more serious and thoughtful:

• How are we to live?: ethics in an age of self-interest, by Peter Singer

• Letters from Robben Island : a selection of Ahmed Kathrada’s prison correspondence, 1964-1989, foreword by Nelson Mandela, introduction by Walter Sisulu, edited by Robert D Vassen

• Elders: wisdom from Australia’s indigenous leaders, forewords by Mandawuy Yunupingu & Lowitja O’Donoghue, photographed and recorded by Peter McConchie

• Lucky Man: a memoir, by Michael J Fox