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After a few brief visits to India in the mid-1990s for some reason I ended up spending six years in the subcontinent between 1999 and 2007. I did a lot of travelling and a heck of a lot of hanging-out. However, during my prolonged stint there I managed to get two books published. The first one (2003) is now out of print and free to read (including reviews) here:

Chasing Rainbows in Chennai

The second one is just on the verge of being released. Read all about it on the book's blog below. It started off as a one off article here on BNA a couple of years ago and has developed into this:

Chester the Superior Dog in India

Free signed copies of the book are currently up for grabs. Visit the following link to enter:

Chester the Superior Dog goes to India


Here's a little info about what you could win:

"Here it is, the new-age Calvin & Hobbes. This time it's Colin & Chester. Travel-writer Colin Todhunter takes his travelogue several steps further along with his canine companion, transferring his observations, wonder, amusement and angst to the befuddled intellectualism of Chester, a stuffed dog, who is a Britisher of Chinese origin. Everything - from the long flight in to the typically suicidal streets of Delhi, the murderous mosquitoes and the haunting cry of "Chai!" on railway platforms, and yes, the autorickshaws - strikes a chord. Colin has mastered the art of combining the sublime and the ridiculous. There is nothing that he leaves untouched. A rollicking adventure in an interesting land, amusingly wrapped up in fantasy." - Shree Kumar Varma, award winning playwright, poet and author of Lament of Mohini (2000, Penguin)