Join us with Roisin Dunnett and Kaliane Bradley in conversation with Nish Kumar to discuss their novels A Line You Have Traced and The Ministry of Time and exploring the political moment through fiction.Set against the shifting landscape of East London marshes and expanding over three centuries, A Line You Have Traced is the breathtaking, urgent story of three women separated by history but threaded together by unknown forces.Revolving around the titular establishment set up to bring expatriates from the past to near-future London, The Ministry of Time blends love story, time-travelling tale and state-of-the-nation commentary to terrifyingly clever and ferociously funny effect.Roisin Dunnett is 36 years old and lives a stone's throw away from the Walthamstow Marshes that are so integral to A Line You Have Traced. Her fiction pamphlet Animal, Vegetable was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books. Her short fiction has been published in Prototype, Hotel, Ambit, Vittles and elsewhere. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, where she was longlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize in 2022.Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult,Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review, among others. She wasthe winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. The Ministry of Time is her first novel.Nish Kumar is a British stand-up comedian, television presenter and podcaster. He became known as the host of The Mash Report on BBC Two and Dave. He has also presented Newsjack on BBC Radio 4 Extra, Joel & Nish vs The World on Comedy Central, The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 and Hello America on Quibi. Since May 2023, he has been the co-host of the political podcast Pod Save the UK.
