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Meena Kandasamy and Kamila Shamsie have both been shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize. Kandasamy’s second novel, When I Hit You is a heartbreaking and shocking account of a young woman living in a abusive marriage. Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, a young woman falls in love …
Preti Taneja’s debut novel, We That Are Young has been shortlisted for this year’s Desmond Elliot Prize. It is one of three novels that is in the running to win the £10,000 prize awarded and be named the best debut novel of the year. We That Are Young is an ambitious retelling of King Lear which explores the …
Coventry born, Bally Gill is currently playing the lead role of Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Erica Whyman, Shakespeare’s tragic love story is set in a world very much like our own and is about a generation of young people born into violence and ripped apart by …
There’s a thin band of cream silhouetting the cranes that hover over the half-built office blocks in the city centre. I head home, below an arc of houses that will be bright as jewels when the sun comes up. At this time of the day, it’s beautiful; the river is still, and seagulls fall above …
Rukmini wills herself to stay lying on the sofa. Om, Om Shanti, she chants. The ghosts dance, screaming in a frenzy, wild shapes tearing at her eyelids, at her mind. Voices calling out as if to say, ‘Come with us. We have come from far, we will take you away. Come….’ As if a great …
What is Author Averaging? Authors and artists in general may have fluctuating income due to the nature of their work. In year one, you may have a little profit but then the following year, you may have a profit that takes you over the higher rate tax threshold. In order to reduce the tax payable …
Ever since the email went out at the end of November, food was all anyone could talk about. From: Culture Comms Subject: Important Staff Event – International ‘Bring a Dish’ Lunch Day! Date: 30 November 2017 at 10:00:54 GMT To: allstaff@mb.com On the 12th December @ noon, please bring in an international dish to share. Let’s celebrate the diversity of our teams …
Without going into detail, my second novel The Girl in the Broken Mirror was triggered by incidents in my childhood, by the patriarchal sense of entitlement that some men feel they possess, by the fact that in many communities’ men and boys think they are somehow better than women and girls and are treated differently. In …
We’re thrilled to announce this year’s winning stories of The Asian Writer Short Story Prize 2018. First prize – Formations by Mona Dash Second prize – Savour the Moment by Nilesha Chauvet Stories on this year’s shortlist include: Gulab Jaman by Hana Riaz Bed Blocker No. 10 by Selma Carvalho Beginnings and Endings by Sidra …
Practical and potentially life-changing, The Four Pillar Plan is an inspiring and easy-to-follow guide to better health and happiness. Dr Rangan Chatterjee presents an easily accessible plan for taking control of your health and your life.Everyday health revolves around Dr Chatterjee’s four pillars: relaxation, food, sleep and movement. By making small, achievable changes in each …