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The Authors Show Interview with Chris Calder
I was fortunate enough to be invited on to The Authors Show recently to discuss my novel, “My Brother’s Keeper”. You can listen to the full interview below. For interest, I have also included below a short piece I wrote about the book. https://chriscalder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ChrisCalder.mp3 Behind the novel “My Brother′s Keeper” Let’s get one…
Read MoreDo you recognise this building?
Do you recognise this building? Hands up if you know that it’s the stunning Lake Palace (now a hotel) on Lake Pichola in Udaipur, India. I took this photograph when visiting the area a few years ago. It was on my first trip back to India, the land of my birth, and to the state…
Read MoreIs the world a safer place?
Right now, in the first weeks of the first month of the first year of a new decade, is the world a safer place than it was last year? Or the year before? Somebody had just stuck a red hot poker into a hornet’s nest in the Middle East. The “bad” guys are not happy.…
Read MoreIS YOUR IDENTICAL TWIN IS OUT THERE..…SOMEWHERE?
Do you have an identical twin out there, somewhere? You don’t? Are you sure? What I am asking is this: Is it possible that, somewhere in the world, you have an identical twin about whom you know absolutely nothing? I don’t mean a double or a doppelgänger. I mean seriously, an identical twin? Whatever you…
Read MoreGetting there at last!
Following the successful re-launch of my novel Celeste Three is Missing in August, I am delighted to be able to tell you that my newest book, provisionally entitled Growing Apart, is close to completion. The first part of the story is set in India. Rupert Chilcott is an English civil servant who is sent there…
Read MoreHolding My Hand Up!
The longer you live, the more wisdom you acquire. Right? Er…not necessarily. I have to hold my hand up; I made a huge mistake a little while ago. For the better part of the last year it’s been a torrid time, one way and another. When I sent out my last message I was on…
Read MoreWhere were you born?
A simple question but, strangely, one to which I cannot give a straight answer. The reason is that I was born in India, in a city that is now in Pakistan, a different country. But memories of my childhood in a distant place at a historically interesting time have proved invaluable for providing the backdrop…
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