Natasha Soobramanien contributes to The White Review

‘This story may or may not end in Venice and in silent, unacknowledged tragedy but let it begin here, in London, where RubyTuesday and CallMeIshmael first meet in person, having arranged to do so under the tapestry which hangs in the lobby of The British Library…’

Natasha has contributed a short story to the prestigious quarterly art journal The White Review. ‘If Not, Not’ is about two internet daters, and can be found online in the fiction section of The White Review.

Podcast featuring Natasha Soobramanien

Listen to Natasha being interviewed at Edinburgh International Book Fair in a special edition of the Scottish Book Trust’s Book Talk programme. She speaks at 21 minutes into the podcast, following Kate Summerscale and Nick Harkaway.

Natasha Soobramanien's interview with Foyles

My first encounter with Paul et Virginie was as an object – my mother’s old edition in French with beautiful engravings. I loved to look at it as a kid and would make up stories around the illustrations – some of these images have been reproduced inGenie and Paul. My mother told me the story of Paul et Virginie, but it wasn’t until I could read enough French that I came to know Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s text.

Read Natasha’s exclusive interview with London bookseller Foyles,in full here.

'Five-minute memoir' in the Independent

I see now that a writing retreat is productive only if removing yourself from a life so full of distraction that you need the isolation in order to focus on your work. But if you are the kind of writer who doesn’t do much of a day to merit this or any other job title, two weeks on a remote Scottish island will not help you chip away at your writer’s block. And if you share that retreat and the remote Scottish isolation with your best and most annoying friend, also a writer and also suffering from writer’s block, writing is probably the last thing either of you will do.

Read Natasha’s ‘Five-minute memoir’, as published in the Independent magazine.