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Arathi Menon

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in Bangalore, India

August 12

Website

https://nothingbeastlyaboutit.wordpress.com

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Fiction, Children's, Memoir

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Arathi Menon is an author and columnist based in London. Her debut literary fiction novel was published by Fly on the Wall Press, UK and Picador, India. 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 ...more

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	Leaving Home with Half a Fridge 3.65 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mystery at Lili Villa 4.18 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Da 4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thud In The Middle Of The Night 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Normal Deviation: A Weird Fiction Anthology by Lyle Skains (Goodreads Author) (Editor / Contributor), DeAnn Bell (Goodreads Author) (Editor / Contributor), Jonathan Howard (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Da: A tender coming-of-age novel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Nothing Beastly About It is going on a beastly break for about a year and will be back at some point this century with a whole horde of monstrous new stories, which will curl your blood, wobble your knees and twist the happy cells in your heart. Till then, a big shout out thank you to folks in over 64 countries for reading and writing-in to tell me how much you loved these little stories of mine.

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“Ninety percent of the songs and movies we listen to and see are based on love. We like to talk most about the things we don't have.”
― Arathi Menon, Leaving Home with Half a Fridge

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