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In this extract from her new book, New Zealand writer Megan Dunn describes her time answering the phone at Belle de JourI got a job at Belle de Jour in 1998. I was 24 years old and had just graduated from art school. What did I need next? Life experien…
The Burnt Sugar author remembers summer 2007, when her grandmother arrived to help her set up home – and teach her some life lessons• Read other authors on their memorable urban summersShe arrives with a small suitcase and several jute bags filled with…
Gifted as a cub by a Maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Now his story has been made into a book“He was,” London Zoo said, “one of the zoo’s politest …
Some of the UK’s best-loved illustrators, including Axel Scheffler, Debi Gliori and Jackie Morris, have created artworks telling the stories of children in rural Nepal who struggle to get an education. The pictures are being raffled by the charity Unit…
A young Tamil ponders the death of his grandmother’s carer in a hypnotic novel about ageing, longing and the aftermath of warIn Anuk Arudpragasam’s remarkable debut, The Story of a Brief Marriage, set in the north-east of Sri Lanka during the final mon…
Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy attack Penguin Random House India for putting out book by a prime minister they say has mishandled Covid and persecuted writersLeading Indian authors Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy have spoken out against Penguin Random…
Author, who usually writes poetry, beat two previous winners to the prestigious NZ$57,000 book award A collection of short stories has won the top prize at the Ockham New Zealand book awards – only the second time a collection has won the fiction prize…
The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giantsThe White Tiger, the film adaptation of the Booker prize-winning book by Aravind Adiga, mar…
This adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel about aspiration in modern India is teeming with energy and sadnessThe White Tiger is a story of servitude, resentment and love – and what its hero calls “the contented smile that comes to the lip…
Amid Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong, publisher says joining clubs to discuss free speech and democracy has again become an act of resistance In the early 1950s in Taiwan, 19-year-old Tsai Kun-lin was arrested and jailed after joining a book club. The…
BJP reaction to depiction of Hindu-Muslim romance adds to recent rows over interfaith marriagesWhen the BBC’s adaptation of Vikram’s Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy recently landed on Indian Netflix it did not take long for the fanfare to turn to controver…
Academics, historians, researchers and scholars feel a literary crime is taking place during the distraction of the global pandemicSheltered in the bunkers beneath the National Library in New Zealand’s capital rests a treasure trove of books, including…
Delhi Riots 2020 claims violence was result of Muslim jihadist conspiracy but critics accuse publisher of censorshipBloomsbury India has pulled a controversial book claiming to tell the untold story of February’s Delhi riots, after the publisher was ac…
Author of Plain Tales from the Raj, and historian concerned with ’relearning’ the role of orientalists in south AsiaCharles Allen, who has died of cancer aged 80, interviewed the last generation of British administrators of India in 1974 for the BBC ra…
It has 110 actors, is based on one of the longest books in English – and it’s the BBC’s first historical drama with no white characters. But some think the series doesn’t go far enough. We take a look behind the scenes‘This is an Indian story,” says Ta…