many books include But Beautiful, Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It , The Ongoing Moment and, most recently, a novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. His many awards include the Somersert Maugham Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. A new collection of essays, Working the Room, will be published by Canongate in November.

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