A Late Monsoon

By Barry Huggins

On the white painted veranda of a post colonial Bombay hotel, two men meet in the stifling heat of the approaching monsoon. They are a generation apart and their ideologies diverge but they share the same turbulent moment in time; a time of upheaval and monumental shift that is changing their world and unveiling the dawn of an uncertain future.

But the storm clouds that gather over world events are also forming over their own private worlds as they confront each other with questions of their past and their future; questions they would prefer not to face.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barry Huggins
• Release date: Jul 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310297229

Barry Huggins

Barry Huggins is a writer and educator to the creative industries. His teaching revolves around writing, photography and digital technologies, primarily to clients from the publishing and broadcasting world, but also to individuals from a broad range of diverse backgrounds.His first fiction title, published in April 2014 is The Evanescence of Being. He is also the author of eight non-fiction titles covering photography, Photoshop, and creative digital techniques. His books have been translated into seven languages.His second fiction title - Letters of a noble mind - published in September 2015. He also has two short stories available - A late monsoon and The sexual imperative.

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A Late Monsoon

Barry Huggins

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First Edition: July 2014

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Given time, every great empire will fall, not to revolution from without, but to pride and arrogance from within.

A Late Monsoon

The storm broke during the small hours, cooling the night air that felt heavy and oppressive, the way it always felt on the eve of the monsoon. But that was some hours ago and now as the sun neared its zenith it bore down on the lush gardens of Bombay's Harlington Grand Hotel, heating the air as if the storm had never happened.

The gardens were deserted, as was typically the case as midday approached, but the sheltered veranda offered a comfortable haven, scented by the sweet fragrance of honeysuckle and jasmine, where a soul, weary from the sun could laze in a rattan chair under the cooling air of