The Soul Within a Novel by Julian Bound

Falling ill in his home town of Puri on India’s eastern shoreline a young boy is visited by a mysterious woman in red. Taking him on a journey around a tranquil lake, together they observe those living along its banks.

Acting as a guide the woman explains the life lessons they encounter through gentle teachings. As the boy begins to realise the significance of their walk his emerging awareness to matters of the soul leads him to discover the true reason behind their meeting.

A heart-warming tale of awareness, The Soul Within provides readers with an insight into awakening, guided by subtle teachings grounded in love, kindness and compassion.

About The Author
Born in England, Julian is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. With photographic work featured on the BBC news, his photographs have been published in National Geographic, New Scientist and the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, with time spent studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and spiritual teachers of India’s Himalaya region.

His photography work includes documenting the child soldiers of Myanmar’s Karen National Liberation Army, the Arab Spring of 2011, Cairo, Egypt, and Thailand’s political uprisings of 2009 and 2014 in Bangkok.

With portraiture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has extensively photographed the Tibetan refugees of Nepal and India. His other projects include the road working gypsies of Rajasthan, India, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the riverside squatter slums of Yogyakarta and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia.

Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015 he documented the disaster whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Wildlife Foundation.

With numerous published photography books Julian is also the author of nine novels including Subway of Light, Life’s Heart Eternal, The Geisha and The Monk, By Way of The Sea and All Roads.