This week we are honoured to be talking to the astounding author Nikita Lalwani! Nikita's first book, Gifted, was long-listed for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her next novel The Village won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered award. Her latest novel is the breathtaking, You People, which has been widely critically acclaimed. We talked to her about fictional secrets, the power of the single line, literary families and pretending to be Stig of the Dump.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Nikita Lalwani - Gifted
Nikita Lalwani - You People
Mary Norton - Borrowers
Clive King - Stig of the Dump
Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
Bharati Mukherjee - Wife
James Salter - Light Years
James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime
James Salter - Life is Meals
James Salter - Hunters
James Salter - Last Night
Doris Lessing - Stories
Maeve Brennan - Rose Garden
Mavis Gallant - Stories
Grace Paley - Stories
Doris Lessing - Winter in July
Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams
Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day
Sue Miller - Monogamy
Carol Shields - Larry’s Party
Sonia Faleiro - Good Girls
Janet Malcolm - Journalist & the Murderer
Toni Cade Bambara - Gorilla My Love
Zadie Smith - Intimations
Sinead Gleeson - Constellations
Patrick Freyne - Ok Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea
John Irving - World According To Garp
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Tillie Olsen - Tell Me a Riddle
Darcy O’Brien - A Way of Life Like Any Other
CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia
Arthur Ransome - Swallows & Amazons
Enid Blyton - Malory Towers
Enid Blyton - Enchanted Wood
Vivek Shanbhag - Ghachar Ghochar
Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much
Muriel Spark - Far Cry From Kensington
Mary Wesley - Imaginative Experience
Pamela Frankau - Wreath For the Enemy
F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
Zadie Smith - NW
Anita Brookner - Look At Me
Anita Brookner - Friend From England
Andrew O’Hagan - Mayflies
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