Journal
Essays by Amrinder Sahota on myth, family history and the stories we carry.
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READING GUIDE · 2 NOVEMBER 2026
Look beyond a family name: consider voice, uncertainty and the questions that make a memoir worth reading. Published on my BookBub author blog.
FAMILY MEMORY · 30 OCTOBER 2026
A practical way to separate what a photograph shows, what a family remembers and what remains uncertain.
FICTION & MYTH
Rebirth, friendship and the cost of power in a fantasy inspired by the Mahabharata. What changes when the figures you knew as legends become people you can love?
Read Inside Mrig · Epic reference: Use the eighteen-parva reading map
READING GUIDE · 29 OCTOBER 2026
Compare translations, shortened retellings and Mahabharata-inspired fiction, with examples and publisher sources. This guide was published on my Goodreads author blog.
FAMILY HISTORY
Begin with a place and a question. A guide to approaching family memory and inherited stories with curiosity and care.
Explore the family-history guide · Choose your next family-history record
NAMES & SOURCES
Suhotra, Sahotra, Sahota and Sihota. Follow the sources behind a question about names, while keeping tradition distinct from documentary evidence.
TIME-TRAVEL FICTION · READING TOOL
Keep track of what changes, who remembers and what a choice costs. A reusable, spoiler-safe notebook for The Day She Wasn’t Dead or another time-travel mystery. No purchase is needed.
Use the time-travel reading notebook
DARK FANTASY · READING TOOL
Separate motive, action and consequence through a worked example. A spoiler-safe companion to The Kindest Hunger, useful with other dark fantasy too. No purchase is needed.
Read the villain-protagonist guide
From the notebook
5 November 2026 · Notes
A notebook exercise about the people who have to live with a story’s ending.
For the longer stories, explore the books, with reading resources, the Sun and Moon preview and edition links.
More reader guides
Mahabharata characters and family guide: follow the Kuru family, the Pandavas and their connections, with links to the epic. हिंदी में पढ़ें.
Time-travel books about second chances: compare intimate encounters, repeated lifetimes and a mystery that moves backwards.
Finding an ancestral village in Punjab: test place names against family documents, gazetteers and maps, with a worked practice example.