May
2010.
I have my own blog http://timmurari.blogspot.com
If you have read THE
IMPERIAL AGENT (reissued by Penguin last year),
then you will have to read the continuing story of Kimbal
O’Hara in THE LAST VICTORY.
If you haven’t read either yet, you’re missing
a wonderful adventure story set in early 20th century
India.
HOME AND THE GRAVE
A work in Progress: The novel is set
in Kabul when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
A FACT: In 2000, the Taliban announced they would promote
cricket in the country to counter their bad image, and
applied to the International Cricket Council for membership.
A team would be sent abroad to learn the game.
The narrator is a young woman who finds her life in
great danger, and has to escape the obsessive love of
a Taliban leader. Also, she’s the only one in
Kabul who can play cricket, having played for Delhi
University, and coaches her male cousins in the game.
THE AXXISS TRILOGY.
I have completed Book One, AXXISS
AND THE ISAAC NETWON CHORDS.
A sweeping adventure trilogy in which a magical black
dog and six teenage children have to seek the help of
Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, Gandhi, among
others, and enter a parallel universe, to find the key
that will send the evil Gondwana kingdom, released from
the deep by a massive earthquake, back down to the bottom.
The novel is with my agent.
CHILDREN OF THE ENCHANTED JUNGLE (Scholastic
2009)
A young adult novel about orphaned
children and their wildlife friends fighting against
an evil witch to save their jungle from destruction.
THE IMPERIAL AGENT (Penguin 2009)
Penguin reissued my best seller which
continues the life story of Kipling’s character,
Kim. Click on the cover for reviews and an excerpt.
LIMPING TO THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD. A journey to Mount
Kailash. NON-FICTION.
Penguin India. (2008)
I trekked to Mount Kailash/Lake Mansarovar
in remote western Tibet on a pilgrimage. It is considered
one of the hardest pilgrimages on earth due to the hostile
but awesome terrain. I didn’t mean to write a
book but that’s what happens to writers. We write
them despite ourselves.
The book was launched with an audio-visual presentation
at The Park, Chennai, in June 2008. The Deccan Chronicle
wrote ‘The 120 people who attended the presentation
went home grateful to Murari for taking the trip, thanks
to the incredible experiences and stories he told them.’
THE SMALL HOUSE. FICTION. Penguin India.
(2007)
The Small House is a many-layered
exploration of the fragility of modern-day relationships,
of desire, passion and ambition, and of memories that
lie in wait to threaten the present.
‘TAJ-
A story of Mughal India’ now has a Czech
(BB/Arts) edition and Bulgarian (Almera Editions), and
re-prints by Philippe Picquier (France) and Dromer Knaur
Verlag (German). The Russians have just bought the rights.
That makes 15 translations in all.
THE ARRANGEMENTS OF LOVE.
French rights : MERCURE DE FRANCE,
France. Published April 2007.
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