PUBLISHED CHAPTERS
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CHAPTER ONE ~ The Persistence of Ego ~ South India 1990
Chapter One, read aloud by the author , coming soon
i Moorthy Junior
ii The Lawyer and The Letter
iii Remember me!

CHAPTER TWO ~ The Habit of a Lifetime ~ France 1998
Chapter Two, read aloud by the author, coming soon
i The Bulwark Shore
ii Pas de plage, pas de piste
iii On the Road Again
iv The Farmer’s Wife
v The Habit of a Lifetime

CHAPTER THREE ~ The Promiscuous Weed ~ England 1702-1850
Chapter Three, read aloud by the author , coming soon
i. The Sicilian
ii. Bobart’s Dragon
iii. Bobart’s Legacy
iv. The Promiscuous Weed
v. Etna Come to Oxfordshire

CHAPTER FOUR ~ The Boy on the Train ~ England & Scotland 1928
Chapter Four, read aloud by the author , coming soon
i. The Permanent Way
ii The Race to the North
ii. The Trains
iii. The Record
iv. The Royal Highlander
v. The Block System
vi. Border Crossing
vii. For the Want of a Pin
viii. On the Down Line Going North

CHAPTER FIVE ~ The Knave of Clubs ~ England, India, Europe 1903-1955
Chapter Five, read aloud by the author, coming soon
i . The Knave of Clubs
ii. The Great Game
iii. A Good War
iv. Solomon at the Board of Trade

CHAPTER SIX ~ Adelstrop ~ England 2001
Contains strong language and adult content that some readers may find upsetting
Chapter Six, read aloud by the author, coming soon
i. Kireji
ii. Lest we forget
iii.Tamerlane
iv.The Nuclear Option
v. Breakfast of Champions

CHAPTER SEVEN ~ WannaCry ~ England 2017
Contains strong language and adult content that some readers may find upsetting
Chapter Seven, read aloud by the author, coming soon

TO BE CONTINUED
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THE POACHER
Cumberland 1928-1938 Hudson Scott ~ All on the Square Moby Dick - A Good War - 1939-1946 Columbo Station ~ Ceylon 1946

SECRET SERVICES PART I ~ 1946-1953
Suez 1956 - Bombay 1955-1958 - South India/Madras 1958 - 1967
The Escape of the Dalai Lama - Nepal 1958 - Ayub Khan and the Pact with China - Pakistan 1961-1963 - Trout fishing in the High Pamirs - Gohar Khan pays in cash
The War in Kashmir. August 1965 - The King and The Colonels. Athens 1967 - 1974 The King of Jordan’s Pencil. 1975 - The Habit of a Lifetime II Carlisle 1975

THE COMFORT OF LIBRARIES
Trans-Siberian 1975 ~ Kyoto - 1976 ~ Sao Paulo - 1989 Tony Blair and the
The Twin Towers and Cock Fighting in Manila 2001

THE THREE TATAMI ROOM
Pinchbeck Agonistes ~ The Comfort Of Strangers - Kyoto 1976 ~ The Opposable Thumb ~ London 1980s ~ Samantha Bright ~ Talking Dirty ~ The Poisonous Prawns
A Dog’s Life ~ Sons and Lovers ~ West Yorkshire 1970
Mozzarella di Bufala ~ Italy 1990 ~ With a toe, in the dust. India 2015
Ellan Vannin ~ Eric or Little by Little ~ Summer of 1967 ~ Scopophilia

SECRET SERVICES part II 1975 - 2010
Bombay, Breach Candy and the Russians
Steven Spender - Encounter with the CIA
Trans-Siberian ~ USSR 1975
Moscow ~ Hotel Berlin - an invitation to the dance
The Girls of Uzurprator, Swimming in Siberia ~ Khabarovsk USSR 1975
George Keharis ~ Soft Power ~ Bang Bang Marcos - Cock Fighting in Manilla - 2001
Positive Vetting & Tea Tasting in Rotterdam

THE FASTNET RACE 1979 The start. The storm. Life and death in the Western Approaches

COVID 2019 - Overture, Dan Walker & The Chateau de Crepan , Love and Infection on the Route des Anglaise, Filming in a Time of Plague (2020)
Global Preparedness Monitoring Board - Gro Harlem Bruntland & A World At Risk
Boris Johnson, his government, the Labour party and the British media
European response to A World At Risk
COVID-19 a global disaster powered by inequality, inaction and geopolitical division
Six solutions for a safer world ~ Film Festivals, awards, finessing the system 2021

MISBEHAVIOUR ~ Killing a Bear and Eating a Whale ~ Arctic Norway 1989 ICOGRADA the confederacy of dunces ~ David Bryant and the SOCITM Board, lies, lawlessness and fucking stupidity. Hey Little Girl Is your Daddy Home? Honey Bunch Kaminski & The School Kid’s Oz. Lisa Bonet, Bill Cosby, Angel Heart, Hit me Baby One More Time, Christine Aguilera. Dirty & Pink, Sara, the Vault Girls & The Last of Us

THE UNRULY CLASSES ~ Peter Crook v NatWest Bank, Van Ordinaire and Prince Limpopo, Jocasta Innes – Richard McCormack - Macdonald Orbis - Richard Stewart Liberty. The Crafty Council, Chelsea Crafts Fair, The Direct Design Show Creative Eye. Margaret Thatcher PM and The Office of Arts and Libraries ~David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, Robin Levien and Chris Patten’s body-guard

TALES FROM THE SHTETLE Alec Natas & The Wild Geese The contract on John Paul I - Buying a Degas and a trip to the Zoo John Paul II

THE UNKNOWN POLITICAL PRISONER ~ The Theatre Writers Union - Red Ken - Václav Havel, The Institute of Contemporary Art - Reg Butler & The CIA ~ Italy in Abyssinia - Haile Selassie ~ The Water Castle of Blatna - The Carp Farmers of southern Bohemia ~ Coming home from Moscow -~ Walking to Jerusalem

SURREALPOILTIK IN SOUTH INDIA ~ Breach Candy and the CIA ~ Moore Market and MG Ramachandran ~ Jayalalitha ~ Daughter of the South ~ Jayalalithaa & Sasikalia ~ Kodanad - Peter Craig Jones - The Toda ~ Coal, TVs, and the Nilgiris Hotel
TN Seshan - The Taj Coromandel Incident ~ Subramaniam Swamy - Chandralekha - Osama bin Laden ~ The Severed Leg

ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A MEME 1925~ 2025
Les Cineastes de Langres ~ Shooting Script ~ 20

THE LAST OF ENGLAND ~ Nemone Lethebridge, Jimmy O’Connor, The Krays and Stratford East ~ BSA - Birmingham, Armory Road 1969 ~ The Met - a terminal infection
Old Flo ~ Harvey Thomas - Billy Graham & Margaret Thatcher ~ Alajah Bolaji Odowole Babalakudja ~ The IDF and ICOGRADA ~Les bateaux pneumatiques de Calais and the boy on the beach

BREAKFAST IN SAMARRA ~ On January 1st 2001, four people meet for breakfast in Samarra on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq

THE EXIT RAMP ~ Little Gidding, Laetoli, Hale-Bopp. Noah’s Flood, The Pale Blue Dot ~ Sleeping with U Thant