We are beyond honoured and excited to bring you this conversation with the legendary Christina Lamb OBE. Christina is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times and during her illustrious career she's reported from hot spots and war zones including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and currently Ukraine. She's been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year on five occasions and winner of Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux. She is the bestselling, acclaimed author of 10 books including Our Bodies Their Battlefield, House of Stone, The Africa House, The Sewing Circles of Herat and co-writer of the global phenomenon I Am Malala. Her latest book, The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless, looked at the pandemic response in the UK. Our interview with Christina took place during the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives and covers the joy of discovering new foreign authors, the wonders of poetry, books you can't put down and the importance of literature in a war zone.Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.BOOKSChristina Lamb - The Prince Rupert Hotel for the HomelessChristina Lamb - The Africa HouseChristina Lamb - The Sewing Circles of HeratMalala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb - I am MalalaChristina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to WomenDennis Wheatley - The Devil Rides OutFyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers KaramazovEmily Bronte - Wuthering HeightsTove Jansson - Tales From MoominvalleyVarious - The Fireside BookWisława Szymborska - View With a Grain of SandJonny Steinberg - Winnie and NelsonRyszard Kapuściński - The Soccer WarSvetlana Alexievich - The Unwomanly Face of WarErnest Hemingway - A Farewell To ArmsHaruki Murakami - Kafka on the ShoreHaruki Murakami - Norwegian WoodAndrey Kurkov - Death and the PeguinAnn Patchett - The Dutch HouseClaire Dederer - Love and TroubleVirginia Woolf - OrlandoAlexander Pushkin - Eugene OneginNadia Anjuman - Gule DudiFarzana Marie (Editor) - Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan Claire Dederer - MonstersWilliam Boyd - The RomanticPeter Frankopan - The Earth TransformedWilliam Boyd - Any Human HeartBonnie Garmus - Lessons in ChemistryScholastique Mukasonga - Barefoot Woman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.