Arundhati Roy with Nicola Sturgeon at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

What did Arundhati Roy do between the publication of her
Booker-winning debut The God of Small Things in 1997 and her
extraordinary follow-up, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness two
decades later? In a stunning new book of essays, we have the
definitive answer. My Seditious Heart is much more than a series
of illuminating observations on justice, rights and freedoms:
it’s a memoir of the Indian author’s life – as a writer and as a
citizen. In this event recorded live at the 2019 Edinburgh
International Book Festival, Roy discusses her novels, her essays
and her astonishing experiences with Scotland’s First Minister,
Nicola Sturgeon.


Supported by James and Morag Anderson