27 12, 2024

What have Michael Rosen, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Professor Irene Tracey, Korky Paul, Paterson Joseph and me in common?

By |December 27th, 2024|Categories: Ashoka, Buddhism, Events, India, Kennington, Kenya, Mixed relationships, Nalanda, Novels and short stories, Oxford, Oxford Castaways, The Bodleian library, The Oxford Times, The Stars ArtMovement|0 Comments

I love the Today programme during the Christmas period, when it has guest editors. Their choice of in depth subject matter is inspirational. First off was author and screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce, on a subject dear to my heart -

1 08, 2024

TIME TO PUT AN END to the empathy and dynamic culture destroying idea of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?

By |August 1st, 2024|Categories: Novels and short stories|0 Comments

TIME TO PUT AN END to the empathy and dynamic culture destroying idea of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION ? I'm delighted that more people are voicing their opposition to this insidious  idea.  Brushstrokes in Time was made into an audio book by an

23 07, 2024

My Town /Gown Literary Walk Inspired by Sculpting the Elephant

By |July 23rd, 2024|Categories: Antiques, Art, India, Lost History, Mixed relationships, Nalanda, Novels and short stories, Oxford, Shepherd.com, The Bodleian library|0 Comments

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19607563.novel-walk-around-oxford-author-sylvia-vetta/ Most visitors to Oxford cluster around a few streets of Dreaming Spires and, in my opinion, miss out on the complexities of this beautiful city. I recommended a few books on the subject for  https://shepherd.com/best-books/oxford-and-where-town-meets-gown In Sculpting the Elephant,

18 06, 2024

Speaking Truth to Power is still Perilous.

By |June 18th, 2024|Categories: Biography, China, Art & History, History, India, Kenya, Madras Courier, Novels and short stories|0 Comments

https://madrascourier.com/opinion/writing-the-womans-life The online Indian newspaper, The Madras Courier has published an essay by Lupamudra Banerjee. It is a powerful and deeply personal invocation of women writers who wanted to break the chains. The timing of this feature is inspired by

1 06, 2024

Have you discovered Shepherd.com? It’s a research tool and an asset for authors.

By |June 1st, 2024|Categories: Art, Ashoka, Biography, Buddhism, China, Art & History, History, India, Lost History, Mixed relationships, Novels and short stories, Oxford, Shepherd.com|0 Comments

Shepherd.com has only been established for three years but is already getting good traffic. I'm one of 9,000 authors who have shared five of our favorite books around a topic dear to our hearts. Below are the links to my entries. 

8 05, 2024

My epic story based on the Beijing Spring(1979). Evidence that Brushstrokes in Time is still selling

By |May 8th, 2024|Categories: Ai Weiwei, China, Art & History, Lost History, Novels and short stories, Oxford Castaways|0 Comments

https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2024/17/the-invention-of I agree with Misha Glenny. It’s important. We need to know about the history of China. That was why I spent 6 years researching the Beijing Spring of 1979, the Stars Art Movement, the birth of the Democracy Movement