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Abir Mukherjee
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Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers
Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. Winner, British Book Awards Thriller of the Year, and the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2025.
So my mum gave me this packet (holy ashes from a temple apparently) and told me to keep it in the car to protect me from accidents. Had to point out that as a brown man in London, this probably wasn’t a good idea.
- Princess Anne got back just in time from fighting the Napoleonic Wars.
- Our house right now: Wife: This is amazing. Me: yeah, I’m still never voting for him. Wife: Of course not. He’s a Tory. And that is what it feels like being a British Asian right now.
- There’s a lot of crap talked these days about minorities and integration, but my mum’s drinking a gin and lassi right now, and if that’s not multiculturalism at its finest, I don’t know what is.
- On the importance of libraries. The one and only @AnnCleeves putting it far better than I ever could.
- Seriously. No one’s going anywhere. Your mum is on Facebook; you don’t really understand the point of Instagram; and frankly, even the thought of Tik Tok makes your back spasm.
- Wife: ‘Make yourself useful and help with the wrapping.’ Me: ‘In West Philadelphia, born and raised…’
- We should get that former prime minster back. What’s his name? This guy.
- I disagree with Rishi on pretty much every issue but a part of me is elated that someone who looks like me has become PM. Didn’t think I’d be this emotional about it. Never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
