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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