Jhalak Prize longlist
The Jhalak Prize always has some brilliant work on its longlist and shortlist, but this morning’s announcement was particularly pleasing as it included one of my favourite books of last year, The Roles We Play […]
Ben East
In brief: Cold Enough for Snow; The Magician; God Is Dead – reviews
A wistful, Tokyo-set novella, a dramatisation of the life of Thomas Mann and a compelling biography of a doomed Belgian cyclist. The Observer, March 2022 Cold Enough for Snow Jessica Au Fitzcarraldo, £10.99, pp104 (paperback) A […]
In brief: Tell Me How to Be; The Go-Between; Time Song: Searching for Doggerland – reviews
The poignant struggles of an Indian-American mother and son; an artist’s insightful memoir of multicultural Britain; and ruminations on a lost world The Observer, February 2022 Tell Me How to BeNeel PatelTrapeze, £14.99, pp336 A […]
Honorée Fannone Jeffers interview
Poet and author spent nine years writing ‘The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois’, which has been praised by the likes of Pultizer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker. The National, January 2022 When Honoree Fanonne Jeffers […]
Roopa Farooki on her powerful pandemic memoir 
‘This is Going to Hurt’ author Adam Kay says it’s the most ‘evocative account’ of working through the pandemic he’s read. The National, January 2022 Novelist and junior doctor Roopa Farooki is thinking back to […]