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I am pleased to announce that Journey to Ki, the story of my Himalayan odyssey to the highest monastery in the world, has just been published on Kindle ( http://tinyurl.com/2cogfly ) Ki lies behind the Inner Line, a militarised buffer zone between India and Chinese Tibet, in the formidable Spiti […]

Journey to Ki ( Kindle Edition)

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I have just uploaded to Kindle a new, revised and updated e-version of Dead Man Provenance ( http://tinyurl.com/24p88yg), the magazine story first published in The Paris Review, which formed the basis of my book, The Poet & The Murderer. It tells the story of a forged Emily Dickinson poem that […]

Dead Man Provenance/Journey to Ki

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I’m having a fascinating discussion on Facebook about the Falkland Islands, again in the news, which has mushroomed into a general discussion about colonialism and the Third World. A passionate, Latin Marxista in London paints a black and white picture of colonialism. But new studies have shown that what we […]

The Falkland Islands

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