Ira Mathur, Author and Journalist 

Blackwell's Exeter University Bookshop welcomes Author and Journalist Ira Mathur

Indian-born Author and Journalist, Ira Mathur, is visiting the University of Exeter on Monday 17th October to talk about her recently launched memoir ‘Love the Dark Days’.

The memoir, bookended by a weekend with Derek Walcott, is about Empire and the story of three generations of Indian women based in British India, Trinidad, St Lucia, England and Tobago.

Love The Dark Days, currently stocked by the University bookshop, has received praise from The Bookseller, The Telegraph, Times Radio Michael Portillo, Monique Roffey (Costa Book of the Year 2021), Shrabani Basu, and Maggie Gee. Mathur has recently appeared on Women’s Hour with Anita Rani, and the book has also been reviewed by The Telegraph and Irish Times.

This is a particular story of three generations of women from the Raj whose damage reflects the crumbling of Empire and is also a story of diaspora, of what happened to hundreds of thousands of Indians who left India for the West Indies in search of a new life in the New World over 180 years ago. The creative memoir was bookended with a weekend with the late Nobel laureate Derek Walcott who updates outdated notions of the royalty and the old world.

The event is being held on Monday 17^th October from 4.30pm to 6.30pm, at Amory B105, University of Exeter and is free to attend.

To find out more information about the event, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/430913753637

Date: 13 October 2022