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A Times Special presentation in which Jaya Bhattacharji Rose speaks to personalities from the world of books and literature. We feature national and international authors, including Jnanpith and Padma awardees, Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners, Pulitzer winners, diplomats, bestselling authors, debut writers, and legendary writers across genres and languages

21 jun

Douglas Stuart Explores Faith, Masculinity, And Colour In ‘John of John’

Douglas Stuart is a New York-based Scottish author whose work explores themes of class and sexuality. He rose to international acclaim with his debut, 'Shuggie Bain', which won the 2020 Booker Prize and swept the British Book Awards. It was followed by the number one Sunday Times bestseller, 'Young Mungo', in 2022. His shorter works and essays have been featured in The New Yorker and Lit Hub. In this conversation, he discusses his third novel, 'John of John'.

30 min
17 jun

Fighting the Digital Curse: How Babell Is Turning Porto Into a City of Books

Babell is a translation-focused literary festival set to take place in the city or Porto, Italy from 24-29 June. It invites writers who work across languages and cultures, and their Italian translators; the festival promotes translations between different art forms, organises translation workshops, prizes, and residences, and publishes new work. In this episode of TOI Bookmark, authors and members of the team behind Babell, Rui Couceiro and Patricia Reis, talk about the literary and cultural event being co-produced by Porto City Council.

32 min
9 jun

Mohammed Hanif On How A Childhood Memory Of Fear Sparked A Novel

Mohammed Hanif graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as a pilot officer, but left to pursue a career in journalism. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first novel. His second novel, Our Lady Of Alice Bhatti, was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He writes regularly for the New York Times, BBC Urdu and BBC Punjabi and splits his time between Berlin and Karachi. Rebel English Academy is his latest novel.

31 min
2 jun

Beyond the Plaque: Hidden Labour, Power, and Art in The Artist

Lucy Steeds is an English author whose debut novel The Artist was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was long listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025, and won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Award and the Waterstones Book of the Year Award. Steeds has synaesthesia which she leans on as inspiration when translating images into words. She is a graduate of both the Faber Academy and the London Library Emerging Writers Program and currently splits her time between London and Amsterdam. In this episode of TOI Bookmark, Steeds delves into the world of The Artist, which was published by Hachette India.

36 min
21 may

Booker-Winning Duo Yang Tsang-zu and Ling King Trace Taiwan’s Multilingual Past Through Fiction, Food, and Form

Yang Shuangzi and translator Lin King discuss the craft and politics behind 'Taiwan Travelogue', newly awarded the 2026 International Booker Prize, and describe a book designed to feel like both romance and post-colonial critique

19 min
19 may

How A Character, A Village, And History Sparked Kavery Nambisan’s ‘Rising Sons’

Kavery Nambisan is a surgeon and a novelist from Karnataka. She has won the Tata Excellence Award for her work in tea plantations in Tamil Nadu. She has written articles and essays on medical and literary issues. Her novels include ‘The Scent of Pepper’, ‘The Story That Must Not Be Told’ and ‘A Town Like Ours’. Her two non-fiction books are ‘A Luxury Called Health’ and ‘Cherry Red, Cherry Black’. Today she discusses her latest novel, ‘Rising Sons’.

30 min
12 may

Daniyal Mueenuddin Talks Ambition and Social Power in This is Where the Serpent Lives

Daniyal Mueenuddin is a Pakistani-American author whose stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and the Best American Short Stories, 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. His collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A graduate of Dartsmouth College and Yale Law School, Mueenuddin practiced law in New York for a number of years before moving to Oslo, where he currently lives. In this episode of TOI Bookmark, Mueenuddin delves into his latest work, This is Where The Serpent Lives, a novel published by Penguin India.

31 min
6 may

From 'Cha Cha Cha' to Novel: How An Image Became An Obsession For Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine is the author of ‘An Unnecessary Woman’, ‘The Hakawati’ and ‘I, The Divine’, in addition to many others. Among his accolades are the 2022 Penn Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction. In this conversation, he discusses his latest book, ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)’.

34 min

A Times Special presentation in which Jaya Bhattacharji Rose speaks to personalities from the world of books and literature. We feature national and international authors, including Jnanpith and Padma awardees, Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners, Pulitzer winners, diplomats, bestselling authors, debut writers, and legendary writers across genres and languages

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