Authors' Club Lunch

with

Sunny Singh

12.30 for 1pm, Tuesday  21 April, Lady Violet Room,

National Liberal Club, 
1 Whitehall Place, 
London SW1A 2HE

“An evocative and very intense thriller… powerful and thought provoking” – Liz Barnsley

“The writing is evocative and powerful. The reader feels the heat, smells the fear, experiences the beauty which remains despite the gruesome scars that war cuts through lives.” – Jackie Law

Sam is a war photographer famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a gruelling assignment, she checks into a luxury hotel. Unfortunately she has chosen the exact moment that terrorists attack the building. Abhi, the hotel manager, begs her to keep quiet and stay put. But in one of the hotel rooms, a small child is still alive under the bodies of his parents… Hotel Arcadia, the gripping third novel by the Authors’ Club’s deputy chairperson Sunny Singh, is published by Quartet this month.

Born in Varanasi, India, Sunny studied at Brandeis University (USA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), and the University of Barcelona (Spain). She has worked as a journalist and management executive in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa. Currently, she teaches Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University.

Her debut novel, Nani’s Book of Suicides, published in 2000, was described as a “first novel of rare scope and power.” The Spanish translation of the novel won the inaugural Mar de Letras prize in 2003. Her second book, a work of non-fiction titled Single in the City: The Independent Woman’s Handbook(2001), was a first-of-its-kind exploration of single women in contemporary India and described as “witty and insightful.” Her second novel, With Krishna’s Eyes (2006), has been commended for its “profound insight” and described as “memorable”.

Her short stories have been published by prestigious international literary journals including The Drawbridge and World Literature Today., while her creative nonfiction and academic writing has been published across the world in key journals and anthologies. She also writes for newspapers and magazines, in Spanish and English, across the globe.

The charge for the two-course lunch (main course, sweet and coffee) and a glass of club wine is £28.50 per person. To book, phone 020 7930 9871 or email secretary@nlc.org.uk. Payment can be made by cheque, bank transfer or debit card. To avoid disappointment, please book no later than Friday 17 April.