guest – The Asian Writer

It’s Not About the Burqa

It’s Not About the Burqa is presented as a collection of essays on ‘faith, feminism, sexuality and race’ and it is a lot [...]

Q. Can you start by telling us a bit about Things my Mother Told Me? What is the main story line? And what [...]

Mohammad Hanif’s third novel, Red Birds, opens on familiar ground; as we explore the wreckage of a smouldering plane, 10 years after General [...]

This is a great collection filled with moments of real tenderness and surprise. A servant eavesdrops on her mistress’s unfolding affair with a [...]

Short stories are meant to be read as just that – a solitary, self-contained story. Something one can pick up without much commitment, [...]

I’ve wanted to write a novel since I was 16. Even though teachers and lecturers knew I could write well, none ever suggested [...]

CG Menon’s debut collection Subjunctive Moods, is published by Dahlia Press and the predominant mood of it could be what the last story [...]

Early on in my writing career I attempted to write a police procedural featuring a lead character that was British Asian. Scouring the [...]

It is universally acknowledged that it is important for children to see themselves reflected in the books they read. It is also important [...]

I remember when I first wanted to become a novelist aged eight I was aware of two things: the first was that there [...]