Arathi Menon is an author and columnist based in London. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia. Her debut book, a memoir titled Leaving Home with Half a Fridge, was published by Pan Macmillan India. Her middle-grade mystery novel, A Thud in the Middle of the Night, was brought out by DC Books, Kerala, and later published by Yali Books, New York, under the title A Mystery at Lili Villa. Her awards include the SI Leeds Literary Prize and Novel London. She has also been on numerous shortlists and longlists, including the BPA First Novel Award, Cinnamon Literary Award, Virginia Prize for Fiction, UA 100X100, FAB Prize, Ivan Juritz Prize and the Penguin WriteNow programme.

'I read Da and I just LOVED IT!!!! What a special, moving book! Ved questions himself about his dead mother and if she would have liked him... heartbreaking, yet so beautiful! I really loved this book, which I'm confident I'll sell at my store. Thank you again for giving me this story and this voice to hear, it was truly special.' - Julie Couture, Bookseller - Boekhandel van Rossum

Arathi Menon is an author and columnist based in London. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia. Her debut book, a memoir titled Leaving Home with Half a Fridge, was published by Pan Macmillan India. Her middle-grade mystery novel, A Thud in the Middle of the Night, was brought out by DC Books, Kerala, and later published by Yali Books, New York, under the title A Mystery at Lili Villa. Her awards include the SI Leeds Literary Prize and Novel London. She has also been on numerous shortlists and longlists, including the BPA First Novel Award, Cinnamon Literary Award, Virginia Prize for Fiction, UA 100X100, FAB Prize, Ivan Juritz Prize and the Penguin WriteNow programme.

'I read Da and I just LOVED IT!!!! What a special, moving book! Ved questions himself about his dead mother and if she would have liked him... heartbreaking, yet so beautiful! I really loved this book, which I'm confident I'll sell at my store. Thank you again for giving me this story and this voice to hear, it was truly special.' - Julie Couture, Bookseller - Boekhandel van Rossum