Jini Reddy
Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
- The #WimbledonBookFest is 🔥🔥🔥 this year. Been to sold-out talks with Nussaibah Younis, Sanam Mahloudji, Julea Kim, Ela Lee, Park Seolyeon, Nikita Gill, Elodie Harper, Matthew Teller and Mahmoud Muna. All absorbing, thought-provoking & enriching! Bravo to the team! 👏🏽👏🏽
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- Reposted by Jini ReddyI'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
- ‘They’d allowed me to enter realms of darkness, guiding me through and showing me beauty where my fears once lay.’ - @monisharajesh.bsky.social on the gift of night trains, in her new and lovely book, Moonlight Express. #travelwriting
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- Fundamentally by @nussaibah.bsky.social is brilliant!
- My feature on central Montenegro, strikingly beautiful and often overlooked by visitors, is in today’s @theguardian.com ! Many thanks to Jane Dunford for commissioning.
- Montenegro - views on a bike ride down to Lake Skadar, a bird paradise.
- Such a moving celebration of powerful new work by Gazan artist Malak Mattar at Central St Martins yesterday eve. 🇵🇸🇵🇸
- ‘Why travel didn’t bring the world together’ Interesting piece by columnist Janan Ganesh in @ftweekend.com
- ‘His essays portrayed the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience…’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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- Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon. Peak flower!
- Sand, sea, and sky, Ilha da Armona
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- Cycling in the Rio Formosa Natural Park near Olhão, Portugal
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- For Freewheeling, a collection of essays published by @dauntbookspub.bsky.social I wrote about an unlikely blind date on two wheel, one that unfolded over 400 km and 10 days, + cycling as a kid in Montreal. Some marvellous contributors including the late, legendary Dervla Murphy. Out now!
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- The most beautiful book cover on my shelf, me thinks. Picasso’s Guernica, no less. (Was reminded of it in a piece about Pierce Brosnan in the FT. He spoke of his work as an artist and and how he adored the Dali cover on Sartre’s Nausea.)
- “At the heart of this film are children surviving a war zone & as documentary-makers we have a sacrosanct duty to protect them. The campaign to discredit this film has dehumanised them & shamefully risked putting their lives& safety in danger.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...
- Pics from the fascinating ‘Tarot: Origins and Afterlives’ exhibition at @warburginstitute.bsky.social
- Fabulous book!
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- History teachers in the U.S. please make extra sure you educate your students about the evils perpetrated during South Africa’s racist apartheid era.
- Dazzling walk from Kingston to Richmond this afternoon!
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- Went to back to Glastonbury on the weekend and climbed the Tor. Last time I was there was six years ago to research my book Wanderland! It felt good to be back.
- The pardons for rioters, the intention to remove birthright citizenship, denying refugees the right to settle, renaming Denali, leaving the WHO, that Nazi salute. How terrifying. And David Lammy, now eager to chummy up to Trump. The UK needs to move away from this ‘special’ toxic relationship&fast.
- A lasting ceasefire plus accountability for war crimes plus humanitarian aid, one hopes. (Or is that too much to hope for?) #Gaza
- Pale light, the river at Richmond, warming coffee from the van at Orleans House Gallery. #winter #sunday #Thames
- Excellent Oracles, Omens and Answers Exhibition @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social in Oxford. If you’re a fan of the Divinatory Arts (as I am) you’ll love this! It’s on until April.
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- Beautiful sunshine in Oxford today!
- Thames Path, this afternoon (near Hampton Court). #riverwalks
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- Just finished Entitlement by @rumaan.bsky.social . Money, race, envy - it’s all here. A zeitgeisty read. #books
- The wife of journalist Ayman Al-Jadi, one of the those killed, was about to give birth in the hospital (behind where the press bus was parked). #journalistsingaza
- Been enjoying down time and birthday time too this past week. If you want a break from the frenzy of London check out Wimbledon Village, Barnes and Richmond. All lovely, with plenty of green space and two of them on the river !
- More fun at the Choose Love store yesterday (245 Regent st) with podcaster Lou Featherstone& a visit from the Flying Seagulls Project, who bring play& laughter to children in conflict zones & displaced kids in the U.K.. Have really enjoyed my stints as a volunteer, helping to raise funds.
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- Went to Borough Market yesterday. Some very grumpy-looking stallholders. I was like, man, if you’re selling me cheese at least pretend you’re happy about it!!! Also, I had no idea Comté came in three strengths . In the market in Avignon (where I lived yrs ago) it was always just ‘Comté’. #cheese
- Superb story & the longer, original version in Migration News talks about forest conservation too. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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- ‘The name Monument is “derived from the idea of each work on the list standing as a new monument to ideas, stories and culture, as well as uplifting or refashioning past legacies,” - @4thestatebooks.bsky.social
- Me, on rejection as a writer, resilience and the publishing industry on the Royal Literary Fund’s Writers Aloud podcast. (I’m 8:08 minutes in.) www.rlf.org.uk/posts/writin... #writers #publishing
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- ‘Where the power dynamic is unbalanced, photography is an extractive act.’ Excellent piece by travel writer Georgina Lawton open.substack.com/pub/takeworl...
- Morning! Today I’m one of the volunteers at The Choose Love store, at 245 Regent’s Street. Everything you buy in the store supports refugees and displaced people. Please come and visit! For more info: choose.love/products/bun...
- Read Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s powerful essay yesterday and still thinking about it.
- This looks fantastic! I predict I travel to Oxford very soon, to see this exhibition: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oracle...
- Reposted by Jini ReddyI’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.
- I am sometimes quite quiet at drinks /work-related events and then I saw this on FB and am reminded why: ‘You might not be an introvert. You might just be exhausted by having to maintain the mask to navigate so many superficial conversations.’ Well said @jamiecatto!
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- I am so pleased to see the BRILLIANT Black Ghosts by @noosarowiwa.bsky.social on the shortlist. If you’ve not read it, you really must.
