Mona Arshi : Somebody Loves You

Alternative Stories and Fake Realities

Season: 5 Episode: 5

Published on Nov 12th at 4:00am

In this edition of the podcast we look at “Somebody Loves You”, the debut novel by acclaimed poet Mona Arshi.  We’ll bring you extracts from the novel read by actress Rakhee Sharma, an interview and some of Mona’s poetry. 

The presenter in this edition is Sally Walker Taylor, the readers are Rakhee Sharma and Tiffany Clare. and the interviewer is Chris Gregory.

 Sound design, production and music are by Chris Gregory

 We would like to thank Mona Arshi for her time and support in the making of this podcast.  We’re also grateful to And Other Stories for allowing us to feature Somebody Loves You and reproduce extracts from it.

 If you would like to buy “Somebody Loves You” you can do so directly from the publisher by visiting  https://www.andotherstories.org/  where you can buy or pre-order a paperback or e-book version of the novel.    You can also buy the book through all the usual outlets 

 Alternative Stories is pleased to recommend bookshop.org – all purchases from this retailer support local bookshops of your choice.  

You can find out more about Mona Arshi by visiting her website https://www.monaarshi.com/

 And follow her on social media where she posts as https://twitter.com/arshi_mona 

And Instagram where she is https://www.instagram.com/monaarshipoetry/ 

  You can visit publisher And Other Stories’ website here https://www.andotherstories.org/

Follow them on twitter via https://twitter.com/andothertweets

And on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/andotherpics/

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 Coming soon on Alternative Stories we’ll be sharing a new audio drama, “Real Boy” by Cailean Steed and we’ll be chatting to novelist Zoe Gilbert, memoirist Lily Dunn and other guests about the art of storytelling.