Archives: Authors

Michiko Aoyama (Author)
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Tokyo to work as a magazine editor. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers’ Award, was a Time Book of the Year and a New York Times Book of the Month. It has sold two million copies and is being published in over thirty territories. Her new healing fiction title Recovery Hippo will be published internationally. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.

Emily Henry is the author of the butterfly-inducing romantic comedies Beach Read, You & Me on Vacation, Book Lovers and Happy Place, all of which were New York Times bestsellers, with Book Lovers and Happy Place being Sunday Times bestsellers. She studied creative writing at Hope College and now lives and writes in the American Midwest. Funny Story is her fifth novel.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her five novels – Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond – have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won four Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.

Swati Sengupta is an author and gender rights educator. Her books include Guns On My Red Earth, Half the Field Is Mine, Out of War, the Incredible Life series of biographies for young readers, Murder in the City (translation), The Talking Bird and A Tea Garden Party. She runs a gender workshop series for the young called ‘The Elephant in the Room’. Swati has worked for over two decades with leading newspapers in India. She loves tea, lives in Kolkata and is bewitched by Darjeeling.

Before becoming a full-time author, Aritra Sarkar spent many years in the corporate world. He worked for two years in marketing research at The Wall Street Journal in New York (1999–2001) and then spent a decade working on corporate strategy at the ABP group in Kolkata. In 2014, he rolled up his sleeves and became an entrepreneur, launching MeVero, the world’s first passion-based social networking platform. Aritra has currently focused all his energies into literary pursuits and spiritual growth. He is an NYU graduate and is passionate about tennis, fitness, travelling, books and movies.

Bikram Vohra, after a prodigiously successful but short stint in Indian journalism, moved to the Gulf in 1984, and has been the most respected editor in the region since then. He currently has a humour column in the Times of India. He has written six books and an anthology of his funny haha funny peculiar columns was published in 2019 (Between the Lines, Xponent Media).
He has had over 22,000 articles published in over fifty newspapers worldwide and has covered wars, climbed mountains and been part of air accident investigations. He currently lives in Dubai with his family.