Skip to content

In conversation

Abir Mukherjee in conversation with Sanjida O’Connell

Revealing the motivation to reveal the sometimes hidden stories of the British Empire through his detective crime fiction. This conversation took place in 2020 and Abir's fifth book, The Shadows of Men, has since been completed and published.
19th October, 2022
' Why weren’t we looking at the colonial period? Why weren’t we looking at the actions that were done in the names of our forefathers?'
Abir Mukherjee

Abir Mukherjee

Abir Mukherjee is an author of crime novels.

Sanjida O’Connell

Sanjida O’Connell

Dr Sanjida O’Connell has written four non-fiction books and eight novels.

WritersMosaic monthly

Get new writers' discussions

One email monthly, unsubscribe anytime

It’s being published I get paid for; the writing I would do for free

‘Any advance [...] for your novel is to compensate you for the horrors of being published'

Complex antihero: an interview with Arthur Hughes

Unravelling Authur Hughes' Richard III

Marlon James: a Jamaican reckoning

'A return to a home I barely knew'

Haunting the Black Air

Poetic freedom across space and time

The Disappearers

A sprawling visceral experience that drops you in head first

The Lady Imam

Is the world ready to catch up with amina wadud?

video

Fruity

A darkly comic crime short film written by and starring Delon Jessop and directed by James Baines.

video

Free Will

Will Harris reads his poem, 'Free Will'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

Illuminating, in-depth conversations between writers.

Listen to all episodes
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
Amazon Music
YouTube
Other apps
What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

Listen to all episodes
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
Amazon Music
YouTube
Other apps
Fiction Prescriptions

Bibliotherapy for the head and the heart

Listen to all episodes
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
YouTube
Stay in your lane?

WritersMosaic interrogates the notion of ‘staying in your lane’ by asking writers how they attempt to think beyond the parameters of their cultural identity.

Listen to all episodes
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
YouTube
Search