Life’s Heart Eternal a Novel by Julian Bound

‘My name is Franc Barbour. I was born on the 20th July 1845 in the town of Saumur, deep in the heart of the Loire Valley, France. The truth of the matter is I simply never died.’

These are the opening words a young nurse reads in an old leather bound journal given to her by a stranger. She soon uncovers the story of one man’s journey through the centuries.

From 1845 to present day, and to a backdrop of the world’s conflicts and wars, Franc loses then encounters those closest to him again as they are reincarnated time and time again in different bodies. Be it brothers, friends, soulmates or enemies, those met with once more hold lessons as to how our actions in each lifetime often hold consequences in the next.

In Franc’s travels and adventures across the world an encounter with those reincarnated from his past is never far away…

‘For who has never wondered what it would be like to live forever?’

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.