Contemporary Novels and Short Stories by Leela Dutt
Including latest short stories out February 2022: FRESH BEGINNINGS
and novel out October: A DISTANT VOICE IN THE DARKNESS
Rubik's Cube
Cruise missiles in the 1980s are the ominous background to this novel, set amongst Quakers in a university city, but in her first novel Leela Dutt is more interested in personal tensions – tunnel vision leading to hereditary blindness, neighbours who persecute children, burst pipes, sweet chestnuts and funerals. Like the squares on Rubik’s cube, the pattern becomes entangled: a foreign submarine is sighted in the Bristol Channel on the day a child is knocked off his bike, a peace camp is attacked as an old man lies ill in hospital.
Availability: There are still a few copies of this book left, so email Leela for details - shamimeolive@gmail.com. So many people have recently said how much they enjoyed this book, which was published in 1984, that it would be great if a publisher could bring out a second edition – any ideas?
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Kingfisher Blue
First published in 1996, this is an anthology of eight short stories involving fictional contemporary Quakers. The stories are all written in the first person and are told by a wide variety of men and women, often outsiders, ranging in age from 22 to 90. They are set in Canada and Wales, in England and Outer Space.
Kate Attfield’s line drawings add enormous charm to this book. The last story, I Shall Spend My Pension on Brandy, has been updated and renamed Celebration. It appears again in my new collection of short stories FRESH BEGINNINGS - out now, which also contains another story from Kingfisher Blue, entitled The Ocarina.
Kate Attfield’s line drawings add enormous charm to this book. The last story, I Shall Spend My Pension on Brandy, has been updated and renamed Celebration. It appears again in my new collection of short stories FRESH BEGINNINGS - out now, which also contains another story from Kingfisher Blue, entitled The Ocarina.
Availability: There are still some copies of Kingfisher Blue available, so click to email Leela if you'd like one for £2.00. Amazon also has a few copies in stock. shamimeolive@gmail.com
Mathison
Imagine a computer program so intelligent that it can write a novel. This is the powerful story of one family throughout the twentieth century, involving an Indian home in Calcutta before the First World War, a Jewish dentist in Nuremberg in the 1930s and an artificial intelligence research unit in a contemporary British university.
The story moves from Golders Green via South Wales to Los Angeles. A Quaker business meeting in Germany in 1936 is interwoven with a Quaker weekend gathering of the mid-1990s as two parallel storylines starting at either end of the century gradually converge. There's a short video on my YouTube channel which describes this book - click https://youtu.be/_8xqb-bt16w To see my YouTube channel just Google YouTube Leela Dutt
The story moves from Golders Green via South Wales to Los Angeles. A Quaker business meeting in Germany in 1936 is interwoven with a Quaker weekend gathering of the mid-1990s as two parallel storylines starting at either end of the century gradually converge. There's a short video on my YouTube channel which describes this book - click https://youtu.be/_8xqb-bt16w To see my YouTube channel just Google YouTube Leela Dutt
Availability: Please email Leela if you would like a copy of this book for £2.00.
Postage is £2.00 however many books you would like. shamimeolive@gmail.com
FRESH BEGINNINGS
Out now and available from Amazon, or the Bridgetown Cafe Bookshop or other good bookshops
To buy the book, go to Amazon, Waterstones or the Bridgetown Café Bookshop. Click here for reviews of FRESH BEGINNINGS
To buy the book, go to Amazon, Waterstones or the Bridgetown Café Bookshop. Click here for reviews of FRESH BEGINNINGS