The Maharaja's Bodyguard is Kam Bhui''s first novel: a dual time fantasy draws on a new kind of hero, intermingling British and Indian heritage and lives.
Kam is married, living with his wife, two children, and two bunnies in a leafy Buckinghamshire village. He is of Indian Sikh heritage, was born in Kenya, schooled in Buckinghamshire, and studied in London universities.
Kam is Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford. As a doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist he worked in health care for over thirty years, and now focuses on interdisciplinary creative research to promote and protect mental health. He is passionate about creative arts, social and environmental practices, including creative writing inspired by story and narrative in research and care.
“In The Maharaja’s Bodyguard we follow Haroun caught in a fantastical, hallucinatory tapestry of warriors steeped in mud, blood and death, and where ancestral bonds are set in an Anglo-Indian world that defies time itself. With a medical and magical eye, Bhui stretches imagination to the perilous yet life-affirming edges of the mind. He creates a story for the senses, placing far more than jalebis on the readerly tongue.”
Professor Paul Crawford, author of The Wonders of Doctor Bent
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