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For Episode fourteen of the BLB Podcast, we spoke to the outrageously talented Gurnaik Johal about his debut collection We Move, out now with Serpent’s Tail. Gurnaik reads from his story Red River and talks about how he finds focus, writing about the Southall community he grew up in, his endless curiosity about other people and how the English language is “not this rigid thing, but like moldable clay”.
Author photo (c) Aashfaria A. Anwar
Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London born in 1998. He won the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2021/2022 and was shortlisted for The Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize in 2018. He graduated from The University of Manchester in 2019. He works in children’s publishing.
Show notes:
Septology by Jon Fosse, White Tears by Hari Kunzru, Yiyun Li, Omakase by Weike Wang, Jon McGregor, Reverse Engineering, Scratch Books
Books featured on the BLB Podcast:
(listen to the podcast for a discount code on bricklanebookshop.org purchases!)
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Dance Move – Wendy Erskine£9.99 - The Consequences – Manuel Mu?oz£10.99
- Brick Lane Bookshop: New Short Stories 2022£9.95
- Parallel Hells – Leon Craig£9.99
- The Coward – Jarred McGinnis£9.99
- Hearts and Bones – Niamh Mulvey£14.99
- Reward System – Jem Calder£14.99
- We Move – Gurnaik Johal£12.99
- Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love – Huma Qureshi£16.99
- Dark Neighbourhood – Vanessa Onwuemezi£10.99
- Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Longlist 2021£9.95
- A Shock – Keith Ridgway£16.99
- Am I in the Right Place – Pester Ben£12.99
- Nudibranch – Irenosen Okojie£8.99
Browse short stories:
- Are You Enjoying? – Sethi Mira£14.99
- The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story – Freeman John£20.00
- Intimacies – Caldwell Lucy£12.99
- Collected Stories – Ozick Cynthia£9.99
- Birds of America – Lorrie Moore£9.99
- Male Tears – Myers Benjamin£16.99
- Selected stories – Elizabeth,1899- Bowen£14.99
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Packer ZZ£9.99
- First person singular – Haruki Murakami£16.99
- The end of the world is a cul de sac – Louise Kennedy£14.99
- The office of historical corrections – Danielle Evans£14.99
- That old country music – Kevin Barry£14.99
- Uncommon type – Tom Hanks£8.99
- The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig – Stefan Zweig£14.99
- Little Weirds: ‘Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring’ George Saund – Jenny Slate£9.99
- The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard – Shirley Hazzard£16.99
- The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 – Jan Carson£7.99
- Mechanics’ Institute Review: Short Stories – Megan BradburyProduct on sale£5.00
- Best British Short Stories 2020 – Nicholas Royle£9.99
- Prodigals: Stories – Greg Jackson£8.99
- Get in Trouble: Stories – Kelly Link£9.99
- Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Longlist 2020 – Kate Ellis£8.00
- The Penguin book of Christmas stories – Jessica Harrison£9.99
- Grimm Tales: For Young and Old – Philip Pullman£20.00
- Fly Already – Etgar Keret£8.99
- The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 –£25.00
- Help Yourself: Three scalding stories from the bestselling author of AMERICAN WI – Curtis Sittenfeld£8.99
- Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold – Daisy Johnson£12.99
- A Grace Paley Reader – Paley Grace£14.75
- Reality, and Other Stories – John Lanchester£12.99
- Many People Die Like You – Lina Wolff£10.00
- Black Light – Kimberly King Parsons£8.99
- Resist: Stories of Uprising –£12.99
- Granta 152: Still Life – Sigrid Rausing£14.99
- Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices – NA£12.99
- Lot – Bryan Washington£8.99
