My Anglo-Indian novel Sculpting the Elephant will be published on March 1. One part of my brain has to stay in the subcontinent so that I can talk about Ramma and Harry and Bartholomew Carew uncovering the lost history of
My talented daughter in law Elizabeth Vetta drew the Elephant for the cover of Sculpting the Elephant. Claret Press’s book designer Petya Tsankova made great use of it. I hope you like it as much as I do. I am
O what fun! The 'i' today Dec 27 has a feature on the huge gathering of fans of the Royal Enfield in Goa. The Royal Enfield is returning to its original home the UK Research in Leicester and manufacture in
It is beginning to feel real. My second novel set in Oxford and India is on the horizon. I have had to say farewell to Harry and Ramma- no more re-writes. C’est finit! Claret Press has designed the pre -
At times when politicians want to divide us, in my fiction, non-fiction and verse I want to celebrate our common humanity! Confluence brings together musicians, dancers and poets who have made their home in Oxford. Confluence invites diverse communities to
Much of the authentic background detail for the first part of Brushstrokes in Time came through interviewing the artist Qu Leilei. In my second novel to be published early in 2019 the detail is from my own life. It is
THANK YOU ZADIE SMITH! Readers of my personal story (link below) know that in 1969 I told a Daily Mail reporter that I did not marry an Indian, I married Atam. So how wonderful is it to hear Zadie Smith
I love this video. https://www.facebook.com/WellRoundedLifebyattn/videos/672422466422857 It shows the stupidity of judging people by how they look. The wonderful Billy Jean King says 'We’d be better off as a society if we stopped assuming that people are the way we judge
aliens3 We can delude ourselves that we are not influenced by flattery. I admit that I liked being called 'An Exciting New Novelist '
Just published by the Folio Society The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Illustrated by Victo Ngai Translated from the Sanscrit by Sir Richard Burton and Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot One of the world’s great literary legacies, this manual of virtuous living, courtship