Read Chapter One FREE At last! The book is off my desk, through the hands of the publisher, and onto Amazon (CLICK) I’m delighted to see it in print, and so grateful to the team that has helped me get it published. You can read the first chapter, ‘Commanding Heights’…

Written by a member of the Quartermaine family, this work of speculative fiction covers 900 years of actual history from Normandy and Saxon England, to India in the era of the British Empire (the Raj) to England in World War Two, Northern Ireland in the Troubles, present-day Oxford, Thailand, and…

I’ve signed up for the Medium ‘’instance’’ of Mastodon. I have no clue how to use it yet, but it seems to be a nicer version of Twitter. As far as I can gather, it is a ‘’federated’’ social medium platform. That means that, for example, Medium set it up…

Geo-politics, history, philosophy … and more I am writing on Substack as well as here on Medium. These posts will cover the political topics I often rant about, and which apparently the other social media would like to remove. This page on Medium will remain for literary work, I want to keep my two areas of interest as separate as possible, so don’t leave me alone here. Substack is free as well, so please subscribe. Click here.

We are aiming for a book launch on Amazon KDP in August. The manuscript has been edited multiple times and is being typeset now. This text provides a revised synopsis of the book. Please do enjoy it. BOOK I — BIRTH PANGS PART I: TO THE GATE A Traveller catches…

Friday 13th October 1066, a harbinger of bad luck for someone. Duke William of Normandy, aka “The Bastard” (because he literally is one), advances towards London on the road north from Hastings. Coming south the other way is King Harold of Saxon England, fresh from a victory over Norse invaders…

An English family, caught in a Cosmic Game, struggles to survive through 900 years from the Norman Invasion to the British Raj in India, the Second World War, and present-day Afghanistan. The Main Protagonists

This story was first published as an article on LinkedIn in 2015. Then it became an Interlude in ‘The Gateway to Gandamak’. “Interludes” in my book are side-bar conversations between the Narrator — Krishna the Traveller — and the Shaman, who is an interlocutor and somewhat of a thorn in…

This story seems to be a bit of a digression from the main storyline in ‘Gateway to Gandamak’. It isn’t. The excerpt provided here, ‘Watery Depths’ (from Book 1, Part 2) relates to the breaking of the German code that enabled the combined British and American convoys across the Atlantic…