Hello, I'm a nonfiction writer in London. I'm also a 2023 Royal Literary Fellow and Hawthornden Fellow.

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My most recent book is The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing (2021) which was nominated for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the 2022 ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction. The Good Girls is published by Grove Atlantic, Bloomsbury UK and Bloomsbury Australia, Penguin Random House India and Knopf Canada. It was a New York Times Editor's Choice, a Sunday Times Book of the Year and a Human Rights Watch Book Club pick. It is translated into French, Italian and Polish. The Good Girls has been optioned for screen by Anonymous Content. 

 

My earlier non-fiction book was Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars, which was nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award and named a Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year 2011. It was also a Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Economist, NPR and Time Out Book of the Year. Beautiful Thing was translated into six languages including Hindi, Swedish, Dutch and French. 

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Long ago I wrote a novella called The Girl (Penguin, 2006). 

 

My writing has received support from the The Royal Litetary Fund, The Pulitzer Centre, The Investigative Fund, The Society of Authors Foundation' and K Blundell Trust, the Hawthornden Foundation and the Druscilla Harvey Access Fund.

 

My writing on politics, crime, tech, and human rights appears in The New York Times, Rest of World, The Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Harper's, Granta, 1843, The California Sunday Magazine, and MIT Technology Review. 

 

When I'm not writing I work on a few projects, notably the literary incubator South Asia Speaks which I created in 2021 to encourage and support early career writers in South Asia. I also created Artists for India, an author-led initiative to raise funds during the covid crisis. The initiative raised over $26,000/£18,000 for Mission Oxygen, a non-profit in India. I'm the co-founder of  Deca, a global cooperative of award-winning journalists that created longform journalism for digital platforms. 

 

I am represented by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander and Kristina Moore at United Talent  Agency.