Monisha Rajesh

Thank you! They’re all so good. And different

Palestinian restaurants, cafés and bakeries in London to support There has never been a more important time to highlight Palestinian food

I know it might seem strange to write about Palestinian food right now but as Palestinian culture and heritage is being erased, these brilliant restaurant, café and bakery owners in London are fighting back through food. Please support them all. www.cntraveller.com/preview/stor...

Last day today to pre-order a copy of Moonlight Express from Waterstones for 25% off!

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west's help | Owen Jones The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza.

It said it was starving Gaza over and over again.

It has done so systematically - with the full complicity of the West.

My column on a crime committed in plain sight 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There will be! Finished recording it last week, but no accents this time. Publishers discourage it now.

Good. Now every country should follow suit and put all these war criminals on trial

Moonlight Express by Monisha Rajesh — West End Lane Books Signed and Dedicated Pre-Order Hardback Published 28th August From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting journey - this time celebrating the pec...

Super excited that my new book Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train is available for pre-order from @qpbooks.bsky.social - signed with personalised dedications if you wish. Please get your orders in from lovely indies like them!

www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/moonl...

Thank you. Hugely recommend

Then my work here is done!

The new-generation Nightjets are so different - in a good way. If only there were more operators who would invest.

Thrill of the night train: from Vienna to Rome on the next-gen moonlight express Austria’s upgraded sleeper proves an exciting way to travel between two absorbing, family-friendly cities for our writer and her young daughters

My kids and I travelled on the new-generation Nightjet from Vienna to Rome and it was one of the loveliest rides I’ve done to date. Plus the carbonara and gelato at the other end of course.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

These 7 Sleeper Trains Are the Best Way to Travel Europe Writer Monisha Rajesh has spent the last three years documenting Europe's sleeper train resurgence. From Italy to Norway, these are her favorite routes.

Just in time for a last-minute summer rail adventure. Here are my 7 favourite European sleeper trains, tried and tested over three years!
www.cntraveler.com/story/best-s...

Thank you!

Authors! I’m looking for books for 8-year-old children that can address racism. Is there anything that springs to mind for that age group? Please repost.

Thank you!

The 17 best train journeys in the UK Take the scenic route.

As the 200th anniversary approaches, of the world’s first passenger train from Stockton to Darlington, I wrote about 17 of Britain’s best rail journeys for @condenasttraveler.bsky.social
www.cntraveller.com/gallery/best...

How the Salt Path fiasco happened — insiders on the crisis in publishing Groupthink, copycat commissioning and ‘too many middle-class Henriettas’ — experts reveal what caused the biggest literary scandal in years

This is great by Johanna Thomas-Corr on what The Salt Path story tells us about publishing -

How the Salt Path fiasco happened — insiders on the crisis in publishing

www.thetimes.com/article/850a...

The BBC dropped ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ but its images will stay with you Now on Channel 4, the film investigates the detention and killing of Palestinian medics — and illustrates why the corporation needs to find a way to tell such stories

review of the documentary that the BBC didn't want you to see - or at least not on its channels www.ft.com/content/d21f...

The 17 best train journeys in the UK Take the scenic route.

As the 200th anniversary approaches, of the world’s first passenger train from Stockton to Darlington, I wrote about 17 of Britain’s best rail journeys for @condenasttraveler.bsky.social
www.cntraveller.com/gallery/best...

Enjoyed this short episode of that Rail Tales 200 podcast with @monisharajesh.bsky.social talking about her love of railways, and particularly international rail travel. Left me reminiscing my Interrailing experiences all those years ago! @railway200.bsky.social

Thank you!

Queens Park Books has just done a call out for themselves and also West End Lane Books?

Spent the morning signing the most beautiful psychedelic orange endpapers for the hardback edition of Moonlight Express @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social . If you’d like one of these then please place an order with an indie bookshop like @qpbooks.bsky.social

🎉 Giveaway time! 🎉

Pre-order Moonlight Express from @waterstones.bsky.social for a chance to win two @interraileu.bsky.social Global Passes!

Madeleine Albright would assist

Today at 12:30 I will be in conversation with Hanif Kureishi at the British Library talking about his memoir, Shattered. Still time to get a ticket for what promises to be a brilliant session.

Always love seeing the book on a train! Enjoy x

Two hours of terror: Sky News investigation reveals how Israel's deadly attack on aid workers unfolded New evidence unearthed by Sky News contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers.

Sky News investigation reveals how Israel's deadly attack on aid workers unfolded. More than 400 aid workers have now been killed in Gaza since the war began. What set the killings of these 15 apart is that their last moments were recorded on video. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

Moonlight Express by Monisha Rajesh — West End Lane Books Signed and Dedicated Pre-Order Hardback Published 28th August From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting journey - this time celebrating the pec...

Super excited that my new book Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train is available for pre-order from @qpbooks.bsky.social - signed with personalised dedications if you wish. Please get your orders in from lovely indies like them!

www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/moonl...

again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

This is where your Harry Potter money goes