Anita Roy
writer | editor
I am a writer, editor, publisher, storyteller and performer.
Being a bit of a mongrel, a mudblood, a half-and-half, mixed race, betwixt-and-between sort of gal has shaped my outlook, my humour and my writing as much as my skin colour.
On this site you can find over 100 of my published articles – and links to the some of the books that I've either edited or contributed to. Hope you enjoy reading them; let me know what you think.Recently published
- On the Shelf #61: Gentleman Jack
5 August 2019Anne Lister was many things — diarist, explorer, architect, mountaineer, lesbian. Conventional was never among them.… [more]
- On the Shelf #60: Rain
5 August 2019Treat rainfall like music; hear it attentively, with pleasure.… [more]
On the Shelf #59: Emma Kunz
20 May 2019One day last week, I found myself in central London with a few hours to spare before my bus back… [more]
- Asma Khan on the Darjeeling Express
20 April 2019Asma Khan and her team (photo credit: The Independent) The gaajar ka halwa came in a tiny orange dome, grooved… [more]
On the Shelf #58: Weasels, Eagles and Wonder
9 April 2019Solar eclipses are not that unusual: we get about 2 or 3 a year somewhere on earth. In August 2017,… [more]
Featured articles
On the trail of J.R. Ackerley
29 April 2008Retracing the steps of J.R. Ackerley, author of Hindoo Holiday… [more]
Here be Monsters
24 November 2014The best children’s books, and the most compelling tales, are those where the wildness and the danger coexist with the comfort and the security.… [more]
On the Shelf #15 – Steve Toltz
17 April 2015Readers will keep turning the pages of Steve Toltz's new novel, Quicksand, in a masochistic orgy of pleasure … [more]
