Multi-award winning writer Monica Ali’s debut novel Brick Lane was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her stunning follow up is In The Kitchen, which opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart, cosmopolitan hotel. Over the course of the ensuing pages, Ali peels back the layers of polyglot London to reveal the melting pot which exists below. She talks to Claire Scobie.
MONICA ALI (INTERNATIONAL) MONICA ALI was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and won Newcomer of the Year at the 2004 British Book Awards. Her first novel, Brick Lane, was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She lives in London with her husband and two children. Her latest novel is In The Kitchen.
CLAIRE SCOBIE (LOCAL) CLAIRE SCOBIE is an English-born journalist and author of Last Seen in Lhasa, winner of the Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2007. She writes for The Daily Telegraph and The Observer, UK and is a contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, Marie Claire and The Australian Way, the Qantas inflight magazine. Claire lives in Sydney, teaches writing workshops and is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. In 2009 she began a research scholarship with the Writing and Society Group at the University of Western Sydney.
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