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A NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL by ADAM YAMEY It is 1877. Jakob Klein, a liberal-minded Jewish pioneer from Bavaria, has been living in the small town of Rouxville in the Orange Free State in southern Africa for well over a decade. He will try anything to support his wife and young family. His questionable business ethics often cause him to sail close to the wind. This time, he has sailed far too close, and his life has capsized. His dubious dealings have lost him his home…

I am currently on holiday in Bangalore. Read about some of my adventures there on http://www.yameyamey.blogspot.in/

Hello friends and casual visitors, I have set up a website to promote and explain the novels that I have been writing. Please take a look at www.adamyamey.com from time to time!

I have just joined an interesting looking web-based forum for those who enjoy reading. It is called Goodreads, and is on www.goodreads.com/ . My ID on this site is "Adam Yamey" ( www.goodreads.com/adam_yamey ), and it would be great to share my reading interests with yours. Please let me know your Goodreads ID if you join up.

29 FEBRUARY in one hour's time. It will be Rossini's 54th birthday! He was born in 1792! However, Morarji Desai, one time prime minister of India and an advocate of urine therapy, will only be 29.

A friend of mine, Digvijay Mallah , has just released a lovely short feature film, ' The Key ', set in the Nilgiri Hills in the south of India. Please watch it on: www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi4068580377

"100 060 visits" on 19 JAN 2012. THANKS for your appreciative visits to my site! You are always welcome.

Thank you for all of your wonderful greetings messages. All the very best for the new year. Adam

I hope that you all enjoy the festive season, and wish you all the very best in 2012.

The Royal Academy in London is hosting an exhibition about Soviet revolutionary architecture. There is a reconstruction of Tatlin's Tower, an uncompleted project for a building of truly revolutionary design. For illustrations, please see: www.facebook.com/media/set/

I have put the latest version of the start of a novel I am writing on the internet. See : www.scribd.com/doc/66975396/Start-of-a-New-Novel-comments-and-criticisms-most-welcome It is about life in South Africa in the 1870s. I am very keen to receive comments and criticisms. A simple synopsis of the story is as follows: Jakob K has been sailing close to the wind for some time. It has been the only way he could support his family in the wilds of Southern Africa in th…

" From Gandhi to Hitler ": now here's a film title that makes you sit up and think. This is Bollywood's contribution to the history of the Second World War.It's just been released in India. It's a dreadful film, but interesting all the same. All of the Nazis portrayed in the film are true Aryans - they're all Indian, except for Magda Goebbels. For more details see: http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/preview/14325/index.html . When I saw it, there were 3 people in the cinema. One…

Fill up with Filipino food. Read about a friendly, reasonably priced Filipino restaurant in London's Earls Court: http://yamey.wordpress.com/201 ​1/06/19/fill-your-stomach/ This is not a publicity stunt; it is my own opinion!

Many of you may visit London some time or other, but for most of you it may be difficult knowing where to eat cheaply and well. So, I have listed a few places where I think you can get good value for money, and one or two where you may have to splash out. Take a look at my new blog page on: http://yamey.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/fill-your-stomach/

We escaped from London just before the snows closed the airport! So, seasons greetings to everyone from a near tropical location !

I shall not be posting any more pictures until 2011. So to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year , let me show you the lights of London: https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/217366 Adam, with very best wishes.

Dear Friends, let me wish you all a Happy Christmas , and all the very best for 2011!