For the fourteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author Jyoti Patel, winner of the second #Merky Books New Writers Prize, for her forthcoming novel, Six of One. She also wrote short story Break for We Transfer’s Literally platform.

You can read about Jyoti’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Emergency Kit: Poems For Strange Times, edited by Jo Shapcott & Matthew Sweeney

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy

Other books we spoke about included Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, The Season of Phantasmal Peace by Derek Walcott and That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu.

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

To contact me, email lucy@thelitedit.com

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