The Shelf
Three stories, one coastline
Investigation · book one
The Copper Water
Novels of memory, migration, and the Kerala coast — written across continents, and carried home to Vadackal in every page.
Joseph Sebastian grew up in Vadackal, Alappuzha, a British citizen of Indian origin who has since lived and travelled across Kerala, Thailand, and Britain. That movement — and what it costs and gives back — sits at the centre of everything he writes.
His fiction moves between literary drama and crime, but returns again and again to the same coastline — its water, its silences, and the families who carry both.
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