Kamila Shamsie | The Guardian
- ️Wed Sep 13 2023
Kamila Shamsie’s most recent novel is Home Fire, winner of the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
September 2023
Tobias Hill obituary
Novelist and poet who was intrigued by what lay beneath the surface of things and whose fiction often had London at its heart
May 2023
The books of my life
Kamila Shamsie: ‘There’s nothing more comforting than Seinfeld scripts’The novelist on the dangerous allure of Gone With the Wind, taking comfort in comedy and discovering George Eliot’s Middlemarch
September 2022
Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’
Kamila Shamsie on the crisis in British politics: ‘What kind of democracy is this?’
July 2022
Summer reading: the 30 best holiday reads – chosen by authors and critics
Novelists including Johny Pitts, Monica Ali and Nina Stibbe – plus Observer critics – on their essential holiday books
June 2022
A hostile environment baton passed from Theresa May to Priti Patel – and a decade of cruelty
Kamila Shamsie
From ‘Go home’ vans to Rwanda deportation flights, there has been a lot to learn, but we can’t and won’t succumb to despair, says author Kamila Shamsie
July 2020
The UK once welcomed refugees - now we detain them indefinitely. It must end
Kamila Shamsie
In a few decades, welcome centres for refugees have become detention centres built on violence and humiliation. The government must shut them down, writes Kamila Shamsie
August 2019
'Rest, Toni Morrison. You were magnificent': leading writers on the great American author
After the death of the great Nobel-prizewinning author, Ben Okri, Alice Walker, Elif Shafak and others offer their personal tributes
June 2019
The Spin podcast
England win again, rain delays and autocorrect v cricket – The Spin podcastGeoff Lemon, Ian Moore and Kamila Shamsie join Emma John to discuss England’s victory over West Indies. Plus: is there a better way of deciding the outcome of matches abandoned due to rain? Who are the early contenders for player of the tournament? And Emma catches up with Bryony Smith, who made her ODI debut earlier this week
December 2018
The big literary quiz of the year: authors test your knowledge of 2018's books
From salmon fishing to textavism, naked tennis to Trump’s thirst for Diet Coke ... pit your wits against authors like Will Self and Anne Enright in our bumper quiz
November 2018
Exiled: the disturbing story of a citizen made unBritish
How can a government exile its citizens without a trial? Why can people born in Britain be forced to leave? Kamila Shamsie explores how citizenship became a privilege, not a right
October 2018
Kamila Shamsie on Trench Brothers: an ode to whitewashed war heroes
The stories of more than a million men who fought in the first world war for Britain – and against racism in their own ranks – have gone untold. A new theatre show sets the record straight
July 2018
On my radar
On my radar: Kamila Shamsie’s cultural highlights
Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers – part one
June 2018
Book of the day
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy review – compelling tale of history and family
Books to give us hope: Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Rose McGowan and more share their picks
May 2018
Books blog
True story: Kamila Shamsie on predicting the rise of Sajid JavidIn her 2016 novel Home Fire, the author created a Tory home secretary with Pakistani Muslim parents – an idea she initially dismissed as ridiculous
January 2018
Books that made me
Kamila Shamsie: ‘It took me 17 years to get round to War and Peace’The author of Home Fire on how she was transported by Midnight’s Children and by a flying car – and why she turns to Michael Ondaatje for comfort
October 2017
Gods and glory: Rowan Williams, Mary Beard and more on the power of religious art
'I had a ghost touch me – horrible!' Writers visit haunted houses
About 123 results for Kamila Shamsie