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The Strange Tale of The Black and White God
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Faulkner.
A decorated war hero of the battle of Isandlwana against the Zulu kingdom is so disfigured by friendly fire that his pride prevents him returning to his family in England.
After four agonising months he recovers but is grotesquely deformed. Leasing a mine in the mountains of india, he leaves to live a life of peace and anonymity.
Or so he had hoped.
In the winter of 1882, four intrepid souls set sail from the fog-laden docks of Europe, bound for the distant shores of Bombay, India, to find him.
A voyage that would forever alter the course of their destinies.
As their ship sliced through the cold, choppy waters of the English Channel and the sea stretched endlessly before them, the ship became a crucible for their hidden desires, a voyage not only across the vastness of the ocean, but into the uncharted depths of their own hearts.
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Jeff Shankley
Jeff is a character actor, author and composer. Trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), he emerged as a silver medallist and went on to star in more than thirteen West-End productions.
He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was the original Munkustrap in CATS and the original Greaseball in STARLIGHT EXPRESS; both composed by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and directed by Trevor Nunn. He began writing during the lockdown of the Pandemic and two years later had written sixteen novels, two musicals and two libretti for opera.
THOSE WHO HAVE EYES is his debut novel to be published shortly, and THE STRANGE TALE OF THE BLACK AND WHITE GOD is his second novel.
In recent reviews the quality of Shankley’s writing has been compared to Dickens, Scott-Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez and Herman Melville.
Jeff lives in Suffolk UK; Puglia, Italy; and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
