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
I am very fortunate in the support I am getting. The poet Jenny Lewis posted this wonderful review on facebook. The success of the audio book is down to the passion and enterprise of Catherine O’Brien of Essential Audiobooks and
A delightful student has recommended Brushstrokes in Time to her Rector at Yale NUS (Singapore) suggesting I talk to the NUS. (See the extract below) Hasn’t she described the reaction to Brushstrokes in Time well? The sketch was made at
My latest blog for Claret Press is more personal than usual and contains a very old photograph of me with my husband Atam. Katie Isbester has titled it How Love Mixes Us Up and Makes the World a Better Place http://www.claretpress.com/#!How-Love-Mixes-Us-Up-and-Makes-The-World-a-Better-Place/c16ee/57cac090da69896edc4d9d35