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'We Asians are proud of our ghosts'

India, Oct. 18 -- 1How did your new novel, The Midnight Timetable, come about? There are bits and pieces from all over the place. The title of it came from a small bus station near where I live. I liv... Read More


Bora Chung: "We Asians are proud of our ghosts"

India, Oct. 17 -- How did The Midnight Timetable come about? There are bits and pieces from all over the place. The title of it came from a small bus station near where I live. I live in a port town ... Read More


Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura

India, Oct. 9 -- Katie Kitamura's Audition, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, is a novel that is at once intimate and disorienting. Set against the New York theatre scene, it follows an unnamed a... Read More


Benjamin Wood: "Creativity has saved me from mental trauma"

India, Sept. 20 -- What inspired Seascraper, and how did the story develop from that first burst of idea into a novel? It began with an impulse to write about where I grew up. I grew up on the northw... Read More


"I try to make each sentence as fresh as it can be"

India, Sept. 20 -- 1What inspired Seascraper, and how did the story develop from that first burst of idea into a novel? It began with an impulse to write about where I grew up. I grew up on the northw... Read More


Review: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

India, Sept. 4 -- Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection is a novel-in-stories about people fluent in failure - not the kind you overcome, but the kind that folds into your posture, shapes your voice, and acts... Read More


Book to screen: The Thursday Murder Club

India, Aug. 29 -- When Richard Osman's debut novel The Thursday Murder Club was first published in 2020, it took the world by storm. Breaking UK sales records, it brought the world of cosy crime to th... Read More


Gurnaik Johal: "The events of the past act as prophecy"

India, Aug. 26 -- What first sparked the idea of Saraswati? Was it the myth, or the idea of a family scattered across the world? It was a mixture of the two. The journey began when my babaji died. Hi... Read More