Andrew  Kingsley

Andrew Kingsley

I am a lucky old man with my amazing and oh so tolerant wife Madeleine and children Sean and Sally, now beautifully enriched with Lexia and Felix. 

In 1957 I woke up from an unhappy childhood to the music of Buddy and Elvis and grew to become a son of the sixties in “swinging” London. Sex and drugs and rock and roll at the Revolution and Speakeasy clubs and Ike and Tina, Cream, The Stones, The Who and more at the Albert Hall, Hammersmith and Finsbury Park + + the Beatles in Saville Row.  We were right at the centre styled by Alkasura and Mary Quant. 

After an enjoyable, exciting but unsuccessful time in the rag trade I was “discovered” by IBM. They offered me a job on condition that I shaved my beard and stopped wearing brown suits. Starting 1972 I did 10 overpaid fabulously interesting years each at IBM, HP and DERA (the British DARPA).  

Nowhere to go after that! 

Now I read, enjoy music, walk, occasionally think and I love the beautiful countryside. I am told that I remain as provocative, imaginative and undisciplined as ever. 

Books

Salaam Rising: A Tale of Forbidden Love and Political Turmoil

To Peter and Leila, Salaam is their daughter - a living symbol of the world they long for, born in the darkness of chaos and division. To their families, Salaam is a promise that love can survive even when everything else is lost. And to a fractured country, Salaam becomes both a question and an answer: Can peace ever truly rise from...

Back to Nature

An Eco Science Fiction Novel of Animal Awakening, Alien Intervention and Human Probation

On the brink of Earth's ecological collapse, an enigmatic cosmic council faces a harrowing choice: abandon self destructive humanity or elevate three clever animal species - rats, crows and octopuses - to inherit and save the planet. As a massive solar flare plunges human technology into darkness, these enhanced creatures begin an astonishing...