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The House Before the Flag: The Guest Enters. The Company Learns Through The Doors
Hardcover
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: May 25 2026
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.37
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The House Before the Flag is the opening book of the Gored Graves Womb series, a historical fiction saga about empire, memory and the dead who refuse to stay buried.
Queen Victoria wakes in 2026 London, not on a throne, but as a coin in a stranger's hand. At first, she sees palaces, statues, memorials and flags and believes Britain must still be morally great. Then she meets Meera, a British Indian woman, her sharp young son Arjun, and Nelson Mandela, who appears in a South Indian dhoti and refuses to bow.
Together, they enter the house before the flag.
Before the British Empire became a map, it was a guest with ledgers. Before the Crown, there was the Company. Before conquest, there were treaties, taxes, trade, betrayal, hungry fields, silent looms and soldiers serving a master they did not choose.
This is not a textbook. It is history on trial, told through fiction, satire, grief and cinematic storytelling. It does not present India as perfect, nor empire as innocent. It asks a simple question: if a house has cracks, does that give a guest the right to enter, widen them and claim ownership?
Darkly funny, emotional and disturbing, The House Before the Flag is for readers who were taught history as a bedtime story and grew up wondering who built the bed.
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