Happy for Jon Ransom who’s won a second Polari Prize , for The Gallopers. Muswell Press Here’s my review: theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

“Dealing With the Dead confronts some out-and-out ghoulish realities, to be sure, but like all Mabanckou novels, it is possessed of an exhilarating hunger”. My Guardian Books review. theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

Loved and wrote about Devika Rege’s debut. “Quarterlife is a revelation, full to the brim with muscular provocations on democracy, progress, radicalisation, majoritarianism, modernity and tradition.” Out with Dialogue Publishing theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

‘The novel works brilliantly as a study of the polarisation of Indian society.’ The Guardian features Yagnishsing Dawoor’s review of #DevikaRege’s #Quarterlife. Read here: theguardian.com/books/2025/jan… #READWithHarperCollins

We’re thrilled to announce that Alexis Wright’s TRACKER, her ‘collective biography’ of the larger-than-life Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth, has been longlisted for this year’s Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. Check out the full longlist here: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-2025…

Love this Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie interview. Thrilled for Dream Count theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

I dove to the wreck of Brazil’s last slave ship—and wrote about the global network of maritime archeologists excavating the Middle Passage newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

“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 Bloomsbury Books UK theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

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

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

Adored this madly funny inventive kooky-provocative debut, Sophie Kemp’s Paradise Logic. My review: theguardian.com/books/2025/apr…

'This gloriously absurd Prague-set tale, in which one woman is split into seven selves, is a wild ride.' A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi is today's Guardian Book of the day. theguardian.com/books/2025/may…

We could not be happier! Hugely proud of both Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi. Thank you to the judges and to all of you who have supported HEART LAMP. What a night!

Overwhelmed with joy as my authors Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi make history with their Booker win—my second in just four years!

My reading of Elaine Castillo’s second novel, Moderation theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

Oh wow! Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize 19 years after The Inheritance of Loss won. What a staggering return! (Out in September!)

THRILLED for Faber novelists Claire Adam, Natasha Brown and Ben Markovits. An outstanding list - what a year! 💥💥💥 theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

Over the moon to see MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga in the longlist for the #2025BookerPrize!! 'Propulsive, unsettling, and strangely human.' The Judges.