The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading

Nilanjana Roy brings together essays covering writers and poets across generations, from Sake Dean Mahomet and Bankimchandra Chatterjee to Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy. The book offers both literary commentary and a personal memoir of a lifelong relationship with reading.

Nilanjana Roy is an Indian journalist, columnist, literary critic and writer. She has written extensively on books and Indian literature and is also the author of The Wildings and The Hundred Names of Darkness.

The book traces Roy's lifelong love of reading while examining the development of Indian writing in English. Through essays on writers, poets, books and literary culture, she explores how Indian literature has evolved and how readers, writers and critics have shaped its journey.