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About Mona Chalabi
Mona Chalabi is an award-winning writer and illustrator. Her work has earned her a Pulitzer Prize, honorary fellowships at the British Science Association and the Royal Society for the Arts, an Emmy nomination, and recognition from the Royal Statistical Society. In recent years, her art has been exhibited at the Tate, the Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Brooklyn
Museum. Her writing and illustrations have been featured in the Guardian, New Yorker and New York Review of Books.
About Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are
A revelatory exploration of the ways in which wealth – and the lack of it – shapes our lives, told through the stories of ten people, from award-winning data journalist and artist Mona Chalabi.
‘The most vivid and readable exploration of the wealth gap I’ve ever read’ BRIAN ENO
‘I lapped Ten Lives up – a fascinating, compelling read’ KATHY BURKE
‘Astonishing. I was rivetted from start to finish’ ALISON BECHDEL
Anna has a comfortable life thanks to her husband – until he asks for a divorce. Kristina faces a choice between raising her child and finishing her degree; growing other people’s babies affords her a way out. Tiffany, meanwhile, earns so little that the farm which is her greatest reassurance is also her greatest stress. Then there’s Jacob: he earns vast sums in finance, yet he’s less concerned about what he has than what he could lose.
Ten people, ten different incomes – all somehow afraid. For five years, Mona Chalabi followed their lives, documenting how wealth shaped their feelings, choices, identities and insecurities. Exposing our various delusions and our universal trappedness, Ten Lives asks how much is actually enough to be – and feel – safe? And can we ever know how much we need, or what we owe one another, until we are more honest about what we have?
‘Cuts through the shame and silence around money to deliver an extraordinarily moving clarion call for honesty and connection’ KATE PICKETT
‘A gripping human drama – eye-opening, infuriating and visually sumptuous’ LAUREN REDNISS
‘Reveals with frank, engaging precision what we’re all really wondering about’ LIANA FINCK
About Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla is a novelist and screenwriter, best known for his Spider-Man series for Marvel and editing the groundbreaking collection, The Good Immigrant. He is currently working on his fourth novel for adults, due for release in 2028. He is also executive producer and co-lead writer on the forthcoming BBC series, Anisha, Accidental Detective.
Nikesh wrote the award-winning short film, Two Dosas, a Channel 4 Comedy Lab called Kabadasses and the award-winning short film, The Great Identity Swindle, and has worked in numerous writer’s rooms both in the UK and US for HBO, Prime, BBC, Sky, and Apple. Nikesh is a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the Royal Society of Literature. Nikesh is a columnist for the Bristol Cable.
He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader’s choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He is the author of three YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award), The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and Stand Up. Nikesh was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller’s 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh’s memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. He has also written a book on writing called Your Story Matters and an award-winning book for kids, The Council Of Good Friends.
Nikesh teaches creative writing for Faber Academy and lectures at University of Bristol.
