BRUCE & HOLLY – THE OFFICIAL AUTHOR WEBSITE OF FARIDA J MANEKSHAH AND V.CHARLES WARD
Top photograph. Farida J Manekshah feeding the cats at Benidorm Rock.
About Farida J Manekshah
Farida was born 1945 in Mumbai (then Bombay) into a rich Zoroastrian family as one of 12 siblings.
In the wake of the vast population movements which followed the British withdrawal from India in 1947, her father, Jehangir, purchased a palace at Guru Mandir, Karachi, using the money he had earned as a photographer. But it was the strange drowning of her elder brother, Beheram, on Hawkesbay Beach in September 1953, which prompted the family’s move to London in 1957.
Farida later became trapped in an abusive marriage to a violent alcoholic, in which she suffered cigarette burns as well as broken ribs. It eventually ended after a 7-year divorce. What sustained Farida through those difficult years was her love of animals. Farida writes about it in her book, ‘She Refused to Bow’.
About V.Charles Ward
I am a UK qualified lawyer specialising in real estate and love writing about my work. I began freelance writing more than 30 years ago and got my first break in 1994 when a chance telephone conversation from editor David Peed, got me a slot at Local Government Chronicle, writing a weekly law page, which continued for the next 6 years, That same week, I was also invited to write a monthly law column for Planning Week, which had just been launched, as well as being frequent contributor to the Estates Gazette (Mainly for Students). It was also Local Government Chronicle which published my first book on local authority companies, in 1996, followed by Residential Leaseholders Handbook, which was published through Estates Gazette 10 years later
As the market for paid magazine articles has declined, I have spent more of my time writing books on subjects within my expertise. Currently my best seller is, ‘Legal Profession: is it for you?’, which is written for anyone thinking about a legal career or change of career
As well as a little extra cash, becoming an established writer also opened up my life in other ways. Suddenly I was being invited to contributor lunches, journo-parties as well as as black tie dinners.
2025 has also been a first for me as, after 30 years of writing non-fiction, it is the first time I have written a fiction book. The Hendrix Joplin Community is set in a post-climate-change Britain which is now America’s 53rd State and in which everything has been made legal. It is the story of a cult rock and roll church, whose pastor will take your wife or daughter to be his concubine. Just to prove to you that he can.
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