Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera are Fellows of the Royal Literature Society who signed the Register on the same day. In the first of a series of conversations with writers who would have been sharing a stage at a literary festival, they talk to Shahidha Bari.
Music from Suncatcher
Visit Largehearted Boy to read about the music behind the novel and listen to a playlist.
King's Lynn Fiction Festival 2020
Remembering the last wonderful festival before lock-down.
Lahore Literary Festival
Wonderful to be back in Lahore, February 2020!
MBIFL'20
The amazing lit fest in Kerala in January 2020. So good to meet old friends and new, and ex-students from workshops writing and publishing.
Suncatcher: out now in the US.
Suncatcher in the Boston Globe.
Colombo Launch of Suncatcher
Come to my Colombo launch of Suncatcher. Go to British Council Colombo for details.
Political Awakening
Suncatcher: out now.
My new novel, Suncatcher, was published this month in India and in the UK. You can see a video of the launch at John Sandoe’s bookshop in Chelsea, London by @ImranoProductions below. The link to the Indian launch at the #SahityaAajTak19 festival in New Delhi is here.
Reef: the 25th Anniversary edition
A new edition of Reef will be published by Penguin India and available throughout South Asia on 1 November. It will have a new introduction by Pico Iyer. Penguin India describes it as “a luminous coming-of-age novel.”