I wrote about Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, “a starburst of a novel, dazzling and unforgettable; it will likely surpass the acclaim of The Inheritance of Loss, Desai’s 2006 Booker prize-winning novel of empire and globalisation”. @thebookerprizes.com @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

‘An illuminating and often thrilling work of feminist reclamation that also enacts structural subversion, disrupting the familiar narrative’s linear momentum and its fixation on male heroism’ My review of Natalie Haynes’ No Friend to this House- a reimagining of the Golden Fleece myth.

'Necessary Fiction – which is narrated in a variety of voices (first, second and third person) – shows a deepening of the author’s interest in queer survival.'

Yagnishsing Dawoor: Thicker than blood

My reading of Elaine Castillo’s second novel, Moderation

Wrote about the new Helen Oyeyemi, A New New Me: “Oyeyemi is a gleefully unapologetic trickster; whether you adore this novel or chuck it across the room may come down to how much mischief for the sake of mischief you can handle.” Gloriously absurd and fun.

Adored Sophie Kemp’s Paradise Logic, a wholly original skewering of the modern dating landscape:
“Kemp’s language is profane and outrageously camp, blending punk-infused chutzpah, feminist irony, meme-worthy disclosures and mic drops with sick, unsettling humour.” My review:

Wrote about Zambia’s colonial-era anti-gay laws and Iris Mwanza’s debut, The Lions’ Den, “an angry and heartrending novel, told with verve and a deep understanding of systemic cruelty.” @foreignpolicy.com

My review of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s powerful and provocative new novel, Theft, in today’s Guardian

“Debt, both as a real monetary burden and a symbolic relational pact, has been a recurring feature of Gurnah’s writing…For Gurnah, the record-keeping principle underlying a ledger is also one that animates human exchange more broadly, corrupting even the most innocent of bonds”. My review of Theft.

“Quarterlife is a revelation, full to the brim with muscular provocations on democracy, progress, radicalisation, majoritarianism, modernity and tradition.” My review of Devika Rege’s roaring debut.

Wrote abt the new Mabanckou.“Could Mabanckou, unwelcome in the Republic of the Congo on account of his outspoken criticism of the president, be writing here about his own exile; the untimely death of his hero an allegory of his involuntary separation from the cherished landscape of his early years?”