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

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I Think Therefore: How a Robot Became a Person (The New People Project Book 1)

I Think Therefore unfolds in a near future where intelligence has been engineered into the fabric of daily life, while empathy remains uncertain, provisional, and deeply human. Within that setting, a machine named Aster crosses an invisible threshold and, in doing so, forces those around it, and us, to reconsider the boundaries of personhood....

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Ashrise: When Grandparents Become Justice

Ashrise is a gripping moral thriller where grieving grandparents in Sheffield form a vigilante network to dismantle drug cartels after the justice system fails their families.

Rain-soaked funerals and courtroom injustices ignite Jim Wilson’s resolve following his grandson Marcus’s overdose death. Rallying ex-cop Alan Price, nurse Eileen Harper,...

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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...

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