Beautifully printed in India, our latest book has made it around the Cape of Good Hope in a queue of container ships avoiding the Houthi rebels in the Suez canal. See if you can find it in your nearest bookshop. It should be there. A friend has been waiting for her order of two chairs from some eastern country. I wonder if her chairs have been delivered. Chairs, books and who knows what else has been on the scenic route for weeks.