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Mar 2026 · Books

The Boy on the Train

A seventeen-year-old boy sits opposite a man on a train. No weapon is drawn. No threat is made. Yet by the time Tom Snelling reaches his destination, he has chosen his victim — and…

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Feb 2025 · Bishnoi

The Bishnoi temple at Lohawat

A ‘miracle’ story about Guru Jambhoji (The setting: Lohawat is a village in the Thar Desert northwest of the city of Jodhpur. Businesses that line the road, such as a garage and motorcycle sales…

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Feb 2025 · Books

Letters from Cruising

“A ravishing collection, remarkably wide-ranging in subject, mood and tone, each story exquisitely crafted. A complicated young man embarked on a romantic adventure and diving into deeper water than he can safely navigate. A…

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Feb 2025 · Bishnoi

My Head for a Tree

The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors Meet the Bishnois, the world’s oldest sustainable community – with a foreword from Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees ‘Sensitive and engaging…

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Feb 2025 · Bishnoi

The Bishnoi Temple at Jangloo, Rajasthan

An online addition to My Head for a Tree Journeys between the main Bishnoi temples wind through narrow Rajasthani lanes and head off-road across desert. Heading from Lalasar to the village of Jangloo, a…

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May 2023 · Blog

Writing ‘The Cellist of Dachau’

Martin Goodman This was the 21st century, and Helen Bamber was in her eighties. We met in the London offices of her Foundation, where they cared for trafficked women, and when Helen spoke she…

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May 2023 · Blog

Piano

A home has a piano. If my mother’s childhood supplied her with a rule she didn’t break, that was it. Her two up two down house made room for an upright. Her mother could…

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Nov 2020 · Writing

Grandfather and I – an early story

My first published story, which came out in Iron magazine in the mid 1970s. It shows its age – I was still forging my voice and this has a delicate, antique flavour – but…

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