Open Skies, February 2020 Fatima Bhutto is recalling the time she met Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in Dubai. The idea was to watch him film an Egyptian prank show and understand something about a […]
The National, February 2020 It’s a hugely thought-provoking tale about the Mexican immigrant experience in the US. A book that’s already been feted by major critics and caused some debate about how migrants cope with […]
The National, February 2020 Jai, 9, loves television. In his family’s one-room house in an unnamed Indian basti, the TV is “the best thing we own”. So when this cheeky, brave young narrator realises his […]
The Observer, January 2020 Kingdomtide Rye Curtis Fourth Estate, £12.99, pp336 A strangely compelling debut novel, Kingdomtide begins when the elderly – but never frail – Cloris survives a plane crash in the Bitterroot mountains […]
The National, January 2020 Jasbinder Bilan can remember the exact moment inspiration struck for her first children’s novel. “It came to me in one really clear image,” she explains from her home in Bath, England. […]