May
2011
I have my own blog http://timmurari.blogspot.com
I am now represented by Kimberly Witherspoon
and William Callahan of Inkwell Management, New York.
Ecco Press, New York, will publish
my new novel, THE TALIBAN CRICKET
CLUB, in July 2012. Editor: Lee Boudreaux . Rights
sold to Harper, Canada, Allen and Unwin UK and ANZ,
Holland: Bezige Bij/Cargo, Norway: Juritzen. So far.
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 associate
membership. The narrator is a young woman journalist
who finds her life in great danger, and has to escape
the obsessive love of a Taliban commander.
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.
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 19 translations in all.
THE ARRANGEMENTS OF LOVE.
French rights : MERCURE DE FRANCE,
France. Published April 2007.
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