A Bangladeshi novelist has won Britain's oldest literary award with her debut novel In the Light of What We Know. Writer Zia Haider Rahman has joined some of world's greatest literary names by winning this year James Tait Black Literary Prizes,...
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4th Aug 2026 | Updated at 08:41am 4th Aug 2026
The Great Game: Blends detective fiction with India’s hidden history
Arvind Ethan David, author of The Great Game, was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and educated in the UK, where his passion for creative writing began. A law graduate from the University of Oxford, Arvind found his true calling in theatre before...
“Books help children talk meaningfully about their background”
The judging panel for the inaugural Children’s Booker Prize 2027, supported by the AKO Foundation, has been announced as submissions open for publishers and a nationwide search begins for three child judges aged 8 to 12.The new annual award...
It is said that the controversial author, Sir Salman Rushie has claimed that the people who defended his most controversial work would not have done so...
On Thursday 16th July 2015, the launch of the anthology, Desi Girls: Stories by Indian Women Writers Abroad was launched, at The Nehru Centre, London....
Thank you for participating in the competition to win a copy of "The House of Hidden Mothers", by Meera Syal.
Thank you for participating in the competition to win a copy of "The House of Hidden Mothers", by Meera Syal.
We are giving three lucky winners the chance to win a copy of Meera Syal's novel, The House of Hidden Mothers.
We are giving two lucky winners the chance to win either one signed or one unsigned copy of Meera Syal's novel, The House of Hidden Mothers.
Sidra Jafri is an author, medium and facilitator who uses her gifts to improve people's lives; her book, The Awakening: 9 Principles For Finding The Courage...
Meera Syal wrote The House of Hidden Mothers after sixteen years since the critically acclaimed Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee. Never one to shy away from...
Last night (3 June 2015), star of stage and screen, Meera Syal, celebrated the release of her third book, The House of Hidden Mothers with a star studded...
