Manish Chauhan

Manish Chauhan hasn't lived in Leicester - the place of his birth - for many years, but it's a place that goes on living inside him. A kind of ocean that keeps offering up its pearls, its stories. Belgrave Road is one such story. Set in thecommunity that formed him, and amongst the people he most admires, who have lived many lives in search of home. A love letter to his beginnings, to a place he visits often, and to those wanting to make something of their lives the way he hopes to.

His short story Pieces was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, and his work has also been shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize and the Exeter Short Story Competition. This is his debut novel.