We are beyond honoured and excited to bring you this conversation with the legendary Christina LambOBE. Christina is the chief foreign correspondent ofThe Sunday Times and during her illustrious career she’s reported from hot spots and war zones including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and currently Ukraine. She’s been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year on five occasions and winner of Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux.
She is the bestselling, acclaimed author of 10 books including Our Bodies Their Battlefield, House of Stone, The Africa House, The Sewing Circles of Herat and co-writer of the global phenomenon I Am Malala. Her latest book, The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless, looked at the pandemic response in the UK. Our interview with Christina took place during the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives and covers the joy of discovering new foreign authors, the wonders of poetry, books you can’t put down and the importance of literature in a war zone.
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BOOKS
Christina Lamb – The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless
Christina Lamb – The Africa House
Christina Lamb – The Sewing Circles of Herat
Malala Yousafzaiwith Christina Lamb – I am Malala
Christina Lamb – Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
Dennis Wheatley – The Devil Rides Out
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Brothers Karamazov
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Tove Jansson – Tales From Moominvalley
Various – The Fireside Book
Wisława Szymborska – View With a Grain of Sand
Jonny Steinberg – Winnie and Nelson
Ryszard Kapuściński – The Soccer War
Svetlana Alexievich – The Unwomanly Face of War
Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell To Arms
Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
Andrey Kurkov – Death and the Peguin
Ann Patchett – The Dutch House
Claire Dederer – Love and Trouble
Virginia Woolf – Orlando
Alexander Pushkin – Eugene Onegin
Nadia Anjuman – Gule Dudi
Farzana Marie (Editor) – Load Poems Like Guns: Women’s Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan
Claire Dederer – Monsters
William Boyd – The Romantic
Peter Frankopan -The Earth Transformed
William Boyd – Any Human Heart
Bonnie Garmus – Lessons in Chemistry
Scholastique Mukasonga – Barefoot Woman
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