Small presses play crucial role in championing new voices
At a time of political instability, many in the UK are clinging to the old, old story that has shaped our beliefs and
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Features
Interviews, reviews and first person pieces on South Asian literature and writing.
A citizen of everywhere
My mother and grandmother told me folktales and myths in Gujarati. I read a lot as a kid too. My twin brother and
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Home and Away: A literary agent’s perspective
This month’s feature puts a spotlight on UK based writers who have found publication success in India. We spoke to India’s youngest literary
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Home and Away: meet the UK writers only published abroad
This month’s feature puts a spotlight on UK based writers who have found publication success in India and yet, at home, their novels
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Kamila Shamsie
Q. Where did the inspiration for Home Fire, and to write a contemporary version of Sophocles Antigone, come from? The inspiration came entirely from Jatinder Verma
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Sanjida Kay
Q. Where did the inspiration for The Stolen Child come from? A friend of a friend wanted to adopt a child. She’d heard
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Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan wrote his first novel at seventeen. As a bright young man on the cusp of adulthood he printed out his work,
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The Things We Thought We Knew
Mahsuda Snaith’s mesmerising first novel The Things We Thought We Knew is a story full of twists and turns that blurs the lines
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Sabrina Mahfouz: The Things I Would Tell You
The Things I Would Tell You is a collection of new writing by British Muslim women, edited by writer Sabrina Mahfouz. The project
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Daljit Nagra to curate new series of commissions for Radio 4
Poet in residence at Radio 4, Daljit Nagra will curate a series of new commissions in response to Europe’s second oldest poem, Homer’s
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