Isabelle Dupuy is a Haitian-British writer based in London. Her first novel, Living the Dream, was the Tesco headline book for Black History Month 2024 and was again selected to be sold across the UK for October 2025. Living the Dream was the only UK-published novel to make it to the Cannes Film Festival ‘Shoot the Book’ 2025. It was a Guardian summer pick and shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards. Isabelle is a regular contributor to WritersMosaic and has also been published in The White Review, The New York Times, Unbound, Litro and others.
Isabelle Dupuy
Original Series
King Herod in Florida
A writer's pilgrimage to Zora Neale Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, Florida.
11th June 2026
Original Series
The manosphere
What does boredom have to do with the manosphere? And how is the manosphere reflected in what we read? Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy prescribe literary fictions to help us understand and break free.
3rd June 2026
Reviews
Orwell: 2+2=5
An exploration into the language of power through George Orwell's life
27th May 2026
Original Series
Parenting
Ella and Isabelle prescribe fiction for parenthood. Is parenting primarily a matter of style, how much of parenting is about biology and what advice can fiction offer?
6th May 2026
Original Series
The state of the world
Ella and Isabelle reflect on, and provide prescriptions for, the state of the world. How can fiction help us to understand what we are living through, how to handle it and continue to fight for values, for a world we want to live in?
1st April 2026
Original Series
Love
What’s the importance of love in relationships? Is it overrated? How does it survive displacement? How is it lost or found? Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy dive into novels and offer literary prescriptions.
4th March 2026
Original Series
New Year’s resolutions
Concerned about your New Year’s resolutions, the folly of making them, the impossibility of keeping them? Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy dive into novels and offer literary prescriptions.
11th February 2026
Close Up
King Herod in Florida
A writer's pilgrimage to Zora Neale Hurston's hometown, Eatonville, Florida
17th December 2025
Original Series
Alternative destinies
Comparing the fortunes of Martinique and Haiti: The burden of freedom which is granted rather than fought for.
4th December 2025
Reviews
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted novel is a beautiful exploration of love and loneliness between two young people
19th November 2025
Reviews
Dream Count
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel, the path to desire is fraught with danger
8th May 2025
Spotlight
The Apprentice
Prior to the US election, a film depicting rise of the 45th President of the US infuriated Donald Trump. Isabelle Dupuy reviewed The Apprentice and was later joined by American expats in the UK, giving their verdict on the biopic that tells the foundation story of Donald Trump along with his mentor, the infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn.
1st November 2024
Reviews
The Architecture of Modern Empire
Arundhati Roy's conversations with David Barsamian
2nd October 2024
Reviews
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes/The Most Secret Memory of Men
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s post-colonial take on a lost manuscript and the quest for its missing author
19th June 2024
Isabelle Dupuy
Isabelle Dupuy is a writer and broadcaster.
Image credit: Isabelle Dupuy by Carl Juste