I really enjoyed my interview with Britain’s Best Independent Bookstore Five Leaves Bookshop (national and regional winner several years in a row) which premiered last night. I got to yak about life and sleep and children and buses and travel and opera and books with poet and publisher Pippa Hennessy. And about growing older and growing up…
A Nottingham-based writer who was born in India is trying to revive the popularity of short stories with her latest book of 13 “twisted tales of the unexpected.” Shreya Sen-Handley, born in Calcutta, recently launched her second book, ‘Strange’, which looks at ordinary people “whose lives take unforeseen turns” as the characters end up in situations they did not see coming….The book is Shreya’s second, with her first book – ‘Memoirs of My Body’ – a tale of how the female body changes over the life of a woman. It was shortlisted as a ‘Best Read of 2017’ by UNESCO Cities of Literature.
