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Books by Kavita Puri
Kavita Puri is a multi-award-winning journalist, executive producer and author. She is the creator, writer and presenter of several audio series for the BBC including Three Million on BBC Sounds which won best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2024, as well as Radio 4’s Three Pounds in My Pocket and Partition Voices. Her book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories was adapted at the Donmar Warehouse and went on tour this year. She was the Editor of the BBC foreign documentary programme Our World, and worked for many years on Newsnight.
Interviews with Kavita Puri
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A Thousand Threads: A Memoir
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The Story of a Heart
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Raising Hare
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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean
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Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
by Yuan Yang
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, recommended by Kavita Puri
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, recommended by Kavita Puri
Now in its second year, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction aims to highlight the very best new nonfiction books written by women. We asked Kavita Puri, the journalist and chair of this year’s judging panel, to talk us through the shortlist: from a gentle lockdown animal memoir to a thrilling true story of a WW2 secret agent.
