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Nilanjana Roy is a journalist and author. πŸ“š πŸ’ƒπŸ½ | Otter of books | Black River | Columnist, @FTLifeArts | Formerly NYT, Business Standard | (Opinions personal) Rep'd by @DGALitAgents

45 books
Book Cover for: My Friends, Hisham Matar

My Friends

Hisham Matar
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

Matar’s profoundly moving and unsettling novel... haunted my year. He writes of exile, of friendships woven from β€œgreat affection and loyalty” but also β€œabsence and suspicion”, and you walk with him through a London filled with the whispers of writers’ ghosts, memories and betrayal.

Hardcover, 2024

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz

After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

"What if the centre of history were occupied by what women thought about and how they related to each other?" ~ Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho https://t.co/OmLBwMq4vp

Paperback, 2024

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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β€œThey were careless people β€” they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~ The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald https://t.co/0izPrmANPi

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place, Annie Proulx

Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place

Annie Proulx
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

"I need room for thousands of books and big worktables where I can heap manuscripts, where I can spread out maps. Books are very important to me. I wish I could think of them as some publishers doβ€”as β€œproduct”— but I can’t." Annie Proulx, Bird Cloud: https://t.co/9d3ynAh87V

Paperback, 2011

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

This joyful novel is a big book in every way β€” a triumph of literature, but also balm and solace to anyone whose life has been scarred by a border that became a forbidding wall.

Hardcover, 2023

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner), Damon Galgut

The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Damon Galgut
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

Damon Galgut wins the #bookerprize for The Promise. "I think books, if they are well-done, help you to see the world a little bit more clearly. To maybe look a little bit more lucidly at what realities are." https://t.co/uGSRpdEbew https://t.co/IBRgzpb4YR

Paperback, 2022

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Everything the Light Touches, Janice Pariat

Everything the Light Touches

Janice Pariat
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

"Isn't that why we embark on journeys? Not only to see new things but to see things in new ways." ~ Janice Pariat, Everything The Light Touches. Reviewed by @SansyG: https://t.co/Y4c9vqDXTi https://t.co/xCINI7ToyJ

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Woodworm, Layla Martinez

Woodworm

Layla Martinez
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

An incredible reinvention of the haunted house as a place marked by history's ghosts, in this case dating back to Franco's dictatorship.

Hardcover, 2024

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah

Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

"It’s only in that period that people were able to step back and say, What? We don’t want these people here. How do we cope with ourselves? And it opened minds, even young people’s, about what had been going on, instead of the mollifying stories." https://t.co/9pTAJnQQt4

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel), Deepti Kapoor

Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)

Deepti Kapoor
Nilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦ŠNilanjana Roy πŸ“šπŸ¦Š

"Delhi is this itch I constantly need to scratch." Deepti Kapoor talks to @parul_sehgal about Age of Vice and this beautiful, heartbreaking, monstrous city. https://t.co/GJLrKfIJDI

Paperback, 2024

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book