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Ghosts Like Us in Berlin bookshop[s]
My novel set in Berlin, Ghosts Like Us, is available at this Berlin bookshop:
Saint George’s Bookshop. Wörther Straße 27. 10405 Berlin, Germany . 030 81798333 Mon-Fri 11am-8pm Sat 11am-7pm
I will add other English-language bookshops in Berlin when it’s confirmed they have this novel on their shelves. Ghosts Like Us was inspired by my time in Berlin in 2009
Soul Climate to be published in 2025
My new book, my tenth novel, Soul Climate will be published by Speaking Tiger Books (Delhi) in 2025.
It’s my 3rd novel, and 4th book, to have its first publication in India.
“Forty Boxes” reflection on writing the Sasha Soldatow biography
“Forty Boxes” my essay reflecting on writing Drink Against Drunkenness, the Sasha Soldatow biography has been published in Openbook, the magazine of the State Library of NSW — pages 48–53. A gorgeous edition of the “lavish, award-winning magazine of new writing, fresh ideas and contemporary photography”.
Here’s the first page:
Review of Drink Against Drunkenness in ABR
There is a review of Drink Against Drunkenness in Australian Book Review, April 2023.
Buy Drink Against Drunkennes direct from me
If you would like to buy a copy of Drink Against Drunkenness direct from me, send me an email with your postal address and phone number. It’s $30 AUD per copy plus $9.70 postage within Australia for 1 or 2 copies. I will send bank details for electronic transfer, or you can pay with Paypal.
new review of Drink Against Drunkenness
“”I’m left with a sense of the biographer’s great generosity both to the past and to posterity in recording Soldatow’s life, and, in the background, the poignant story of a generation and its misadventures and partially-filled ambitions over the decades.” In this review by biographer Nathan Hobby, found here:https://nathanhobby.com/2023/06/07/drink-against-drunkenness-the-life-and-times-of-sasha-soldatow/
Bit of video from bookshop event April 2023
Here’s some video posted by Nandita Bose with whom I had a “conversation” at the Atta Galatta Bookshop in Bangalore, India on 23 April 2023
https://twitter.com/nand_bo/status/1650338087770234882?s=48&t=fZ6FEjPU0wQFaPefC7T1wA
Reading and talk in Bangalore, 23 April ’23
At the AttaGallatta bookstore, Bangalore on Sunday 23 April 2023–reading, and conversation with Nandita Bose
The Jamun, Bangalore, all of April 2023
A whole month at this beautiful, peaceful,comfortable house in one of the leafier parts of Bangalore. At the right time of year many writers gather for the Sangam House season here, but at this wrong season I am mainly alone. Open the link to see house, rooms. TheJamun.com
Udaipur, lecture at MLS university, 31 March 2023
Professor Pradeep Trikha, who I’ve known for 20 years, invited me to give a lecture at the Department of English at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. I also enjoyed lunch with members of the department, and some students took me to see the beauties of this town of lakes and palaces.
