Feb 27, 2020
A Roll of the Dice was a finalist in the Non-Fiction category of the People’s Book...
Jun 24, 2019
When did you know you had a story in you that you wanted to share? Many years ago, when my baby boy became ill, and the word SCID entered my life, I thought, one day, I would write about it to increase awareness about this rare and fatal condition. I was however...
May 1, 2019
I am a writer of fiction and poetry. When I decided to write this as a memoir, and therefore a true story, there were questions, especially from family. Was it a good idea to bare so much of my personal life? Why not fictionalise it, invent characters, embellish the...
Apr 20, 2019
The personal and the medical aspects of A Roll of the Dice: a story of loss, love and genetics (published on April 22 and available to order on...
Apr 19, 2019
2018 was an exciting year for author Mona Dash. She was on the shortlist for the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2018, for her short story collection, Let us look elsewhere. This was the only short story collection to make the shortlist. Apart from the excitement, making the...
Apr 19, 2019
Viewpoint invites authors to write about anything they want, as long as it’s of interest to readers of Asian Books Blog. Here, Mona Dash talks about leaving her native India, to save her child’s life. Her son was born with a rare, genetically inheritable...
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