15 December 2009

Australia!

Tomorrow i begin my trip back to Australia after two and a half years away.

I’ll live in Melbourne. 

15 December 2009

Writing Lessons in Griffith Review

“Writing Lessons” is my memoir of the settings of my first seven books and the settings in which they were written. Now in the online edition of the latest Griffith Review. Go to

http://www.griffithreview.com/component/content/article/233-essay/770.html

3 October 2009

With The Tiger at The Razor’s Edge

All about With The Tiger at a site devoted to Bill Murray’s film of The Razor’s Edge.

http://www.theoldcorner.org.uk/withetiger.htm

9 September 2009

Berlin!!!

I arrived in Berlin a week ago to spend about three months here. 

27 June 2009

leaving Belgium, going to Latvia

On July 1st I begin a one month residency at the House of Writers and Translators at Ventspils, on the Baltic coast in Latvia:

http://www.ventspilshouse.lv/index_en.php

16 May 2009

Interview about With The Tiger in The Hindu

http://www.hinduonnet.com/mp/2009/05/16/stories/2009051650800700.htm

With the Tiger

Published by Press On Publishing Australia 2010

ISBN: ISBN 978 1 921509 57 5

http://www.press-on-publishing.net/

Published by HarperCollins India 2008

ISBN: 978-81-7223-717-2

http://harpercollins.co.in

How to buy With The Tiger

With The Tiger should be available in all good book shops in India.

HarperCollins India has an ordering service within India. Here is the link:

http://harpercollins.co.in

To order With The Tiger outside India, you could try Indiaplaza.com or firstandsecond.com. Here are the links:

http://www.indiaplaza.com

http://firstandsecond.com

With The Tiger is a contemporary re-writing of Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge. It is a social history of the 1980’s and 90’s, and a story of one Westerner’s search for meaning in India. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, The Razor’s Edge by W Somerset Maugham, a novel published in 1942, is said to have begun the craze for ‘Spiritual India.’

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

“I wanted to follow Maugham closely but set it in a new time and place”

interview in Indian Express/Sunday Pioneer with Swati Pal 8 March 2009

“Maugham’s the word”

interview in The Asian Age with Nawaid Anjum

25 March 2009

“Fast forwarding Mr Maugham”

interview in Bangalore Mirror with Nishanth S Coontoor

7 April 2009

“Spiritual India and other stories”

interview in Sakaal Times with Biswadip Mitra

Monday, April 20th, 2009

REVIEWS

“Through foreign eyes” review in Deccan Herald 10 August 2008

“Walking along the Razor’s Edge … Again“ review in DNA 7 September 2008

“If It Ain’t Broke?“ review in The Statesman 4 January 2009

“Chasing Dreams“ The Tribune 17 August 2008

“Off the shelf” Sahara Times 2 August 2008

25 April 2008

Antwerp, Belgium

I am staying at the PEN-Flanders flat in Antwerp Belgium until the end of June. Am most grateful for this opportunity; it’s a perfect writing space. Here:

http://www.penvlaanderen.be/cms/default2.asp?active_page_id=53

25 April 2008

Antwerp, Belgium

I am staying at the PEN-Flanders flat in Antwerp Belgium until the end of June. Am most grateful for this opportunity; it’s a perfect writing space. Here:

http://www.penvlaanderen.be/cms/default2.asp?active_page_id=53

22 April 2009

Press On Publishing

A new publishing venture in Australia. Press On will publish an Australian edition of With The Tiger next year. Have a look at the site … and subscribe. Support independent publishing.

http://www.press-on-publishing.net/

16 April 2009

Dehra Dun, Delhi

I stayed on in Rajpur near Dehra Dun to do a second three week yoga course at the Yog-Gangga Centre for Yoga Studies (March 28-April 15).

Now in Delhi again for a few days.

On to Belgium on the 20th; more on that soon.

3 March 2009

Delhi, Dehra Dun

Spending four days in Delhi, seeing friends and my publisher, doing the odd interview for With The Tiger.

On to Dehra Dun for three weeks yoga course at the Yog-Ganga Centre for Yoga Studies, from March 5

launch of Fiction as Window by V Padma

18 February 2009

On 18 February I spoke a the launch of V Padma’s brilliant book Fiction as Window: critiquing the Indian literary cultural ethos since the 1980s (Orient Black Swan) held in Chennai and hosted by the Centre for Australian Studies of the University of Madras. The book was launched by Paul Sharrad of the University of Wollongong in Australia.

6 February 2009

Readings at Sangam House 6 February

I joined the resident writers and a few other writers at the end of the writers’ season at Sangam House in Adi Shakti near Aruoville to read from current and published works. Live music afterwards from Adki Shakti musicians. http://www.sangamhouse.org

31 January 2009

Sangam House reading in Chennai, January 29

On Thursday (Jan 29) I was invited to join the international writers group from nearby Sangam House to read at the new Taj Mount Road hotel in Chennai. Here’s the link to see what a range of writers there are, and to learn about Sangam House:

http://www.sangamhouse.org/press.htm

22 January 2009

current location: Pondicherry, India

I moved to Pondicherry just before New Year, to spend a couple of months living and writing here. Officially the town is now called Puducherry and usually it’s “Pondy”.