GAUTAM MALKANI is a commissioning editor at The Financial Times in London. He studied social and political sciences at Cambridge University. Londonstani, his first novel, was a finalist for both a British Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Europe and South Asia region) and was NOW Magazine s #1 Book of the Year. Malkani lives in London, England. Visit the author online at www.londonstani.ca.