Booked For Life
The daughter of an embittered, hard-drinking Anglo-Indian engine driver from a little railway colony finally finds love in war-torn England. But it’s 60 years before she breaks her silence on how she helped unmask a German spy, and the aftershock takes an investigative Australian journalist all the way to the Vatican. Kolkata-born novelist and photographer David McMahon speaks about his forthcoming book to Mathures Paul Growing up doesn’t always have to be a straight line, but a series of advances and retreats, something novelist and photographer David McMahon learnt early. At 3 Dumayne Avenue lies some of his most cherished memories. Giving up his secure job in Calcutta, McMahon moved to Australia many years back. Last year Penguin decided to publish his first novel, Vegemite Vindaloo, which was on the bestseller lists, and in October this year he e-mailed the manuscript of his second novel ~ Muskoka Maharani ~ to Penguin, one day ahead of deadline! He speaks to Unplugged. “Every nove...