Forthcoming Publication: Through the Cracks – Memories of an Imperfect Biographer

My journeying has taken me from a Himalayan hill station to Cold War European embassy life, from London’s Metropolitan Police to the luxury of the South of France and the slums of Kolkata, from the snows of Moscow to the Sahara sands, and from New York’s United Nations building to freedom marches in apartheid South Africa. In a series of snapshot memories, my  new book provides a personal insight into some of the significant people I have encountered in the course of my writing life, some of them such as Mother Teresa well-known, others less so, but all viewed through the prism of Leonard Cohen’s insight: “There is a crack in everything. Through the crack the light gets in.”

In an age when disagreement can lead not to respectful acceptance of difference and imperfection but to “cancellation”, the reader is challenged to perceive and appreciate the light that can find a way through even the most devastating human brokenness. Through my experience of the human foibles of those I have met along the way, “Through the Cracks – Memories of an Imperfect Biographer” demonstrates that there may indeed be “a crack in everything” but that it is through those very cracks that light not only enters but can at the same time be radiated.