The cold is here and I am happy to say we have a warm, enclosed fire going which as I write has been burning for four days. Momo my rescued little dog loves the fire and spends the day curled up on the softest chair nearby and in the evenings sometimes even gets up and…
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It Is Interesting
I joined Linked-In to commune with the social networking business community and I have been interested to see how many posts are to do with the 7 things you should/should not do, the 10 most important things for your business, the 5 this and the 8 that. And I see that this way of thinking…
Artists
Gabriela Sepulveda lives in America and answered my request for artists to illustrate my work. She liked Blueskin the Cat, which is actually also my mother’s favourite story, about a highwayman in the 18th Century who is reincarnated as a cat and his subsequent adventures which finally take him to America. I received on Facebook…
The Exalted Gate
Many years ago when I first met Annie Ovenden I asked her if I could write some fairy stores inspired by her paintings. I didn’t think anything would come of the letter I sent and was genuinely surprised when she appeared at the door of the place I was working with transparencies and pictures of…
The Truth About Books
A Brief History of Lies by Daniel Nanavati Release Date: 1st Jun 2010 Publisher: Footsteps Press ISBN: 978 1 4457 6849 6 RRP: £6.50 This is what you get when an author can’t decide if their book is “funny” or “serious”… An unashamedly unabashed subtitle proclaims this non-fiction title to be “The Most Brilliant Book…
San Fransisco Review Of Books
A Brief History of Lies: The Most Brilliant Book Ever Written Filed in Featured-NonFiction, Humor – Nonfiction on June 30, 2010 with no comments By Daniel Nanavati CreateSpace, $8.00, 100 pages Everybody lies. We lie to protect ourselves, to protect others, to prevent hurt feelings, to get what we want, to stay out of trouble….
Sonnet To Childhood
The glories of your heaven cannot show A being quite as lovely to the eye As one that through the days and months will grow From babe to child, fro child to mystery. Inventions filter through your searching hands Ideas shape and mold your every move With grace you smile, with brilliance understand What others…
To Women
What is the use of a bed without a Woman upon it, to sculpture the sheets With her form and the pillows with her play And make the springs sing at her deep love’s feats? And what is the use of an hour of night Or an hour of the day not resonant With sighs…
Fulminar The Good Magician
The first book I ever wrote for children, begun when I started revising for my degree, was a little too like C.S.Lewis according to the agents, so I had to write something slightly different. The result was Fulminar The Good Magician which is about a special magician come to earth to rescue some stolen, magical…
To Women
My poems about love actually started with one written years ago about love of life, and what life meant to me. My mother said it was a very good poem and one of my friends said it was the loveliest thing she had ever read! Over the years it expanded in a strange way and…