Monisha Rajesh
@monisharajesh.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author of Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train, Around the World in 80 Trains and Around India in 80 Trains
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Thrilled to announce that Moonlight Express is a Waterstones Book of the Month for August! lots of signed copies available for armchair travellers..
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Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him.
His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. 
I sued them for wrongful termination and won.
So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. 
I sued them for wrongful termination and won.
So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
Did you ever meet Bob Kraft?
September 17, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him.
His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. 
I sued them for wrongful termination and won.
So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. 
I sued them for wrongful termination and won.
So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Bargain of the moment in Waterstones shops: the paperbacks of 'Moonlight Express' by @monisharajesh.bsky.social and 'The Finest Hotel in Kabul' by Lyse Doucet are in the 'buy 1, get 1 half-price' offer. I can heartily recommend both: deskboundtraveller.com/my-books-of-....
September 8, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Bargain of the moment in Waterstones shops: the paperbacks of 'Moonlight Express' by @monisharajesh.bsky.social and 'The Finest Hotel in Kabul' by Lyse Doucet are in the 'buy 1, get 1 half-price' offer. I can heartily recommend both: deskboundtraveller.com/my-books-of-....
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Just completed Moonlight Express by @monisharajesh.bsky.social. A brilliantly transporting read, which has immediately inspired two journeys for slowing down and avoiding flights in 2027.
We have only a handful of signed copies left after Monisha’s brilliant event earlier this month.
We have only a handful of signed copies left after Monisha’s brilliant event earlier this month.
August 30, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Just completed Moonlight Express by @monisharajesh.bsky.social. A brilliantly transporting read, which has immediately inspired two journeys for slowing down and avoiding flights in 2027.
We have only a handful of signed copies left after Monisha’s brilliant event earlier this month.
We have only a handful of signed copies left after Monisha’s brilliant event earlier this month.
Thrilled to see Moonlight Express in the Sunday Times Bestsellers for a second week in a row!
August 23, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Thrilled to see Moonlight Express in the Sunday Times Bestsellers for a second week in a row!
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One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people
I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week
I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week
August 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people
I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week
I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week
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My book is out in paperback next week. If you want to understand how the media works (and what’s going wrong) it’s the book for you.
Samira Ahmed said it’s “brimming with intelligence, energy, ethics and impeccable research."
geni.us/BreakingMicW...
Samira Ahmed said it’s “brimming with intelligence, energy, ethics and impeccable research."
geni.us/BreakingMicW...
August 19, 2026 at 5:37 PM
My book is out in paperback next week. If you want to understand how the media works (and what’s going wrong) it’s the book for you.
Samira Ahmed said it’s “brimming with intelligence, energy, ethics and impeccable research."
geni.us/BreakingMicW...
Samira Ahmed said it’s “brimming with intelligence, energy, ethics and impeccable research."
geni.us/BreakingMicW...
So thrilled that Moonlight Express is no. 6 on the Sunday Times bestseller list! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought and recommended the book.
August 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM
So thrilled that Moonlight Express is no. 6 on the Sunday Times bestseller list! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought and recommended the book.
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Very interesting that @privateeyenews.bsky.social has deleted the videos of @helenlewis.bsky.social laughing at Jason Arday. I wonder why.
August 15, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Very interesting that @privateeyenews.bsky.social has deleted the videos of @helenlewis.bsky.social laughing at Jason Arday. I wonder why.
Readers in Cambridge, I will be at Waterstones tonight from 6pm discussing Moonlight Express, and then in Bristol tomorrow night at the Book Cellar. A handful of tickets left so please come along!
August 12, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Readers in Cambridge, I will be at Waterstones tonight from 6pm discussing Moonlight Express, and then in Bristol tomorrow night at the Book Cellar. A handful of tickets left so please come along!
Newham Bookshop is one of the loveliest indies in London, and it may have to close down. PLEASE support them if you can and share widely.
August 10, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Newham Bookshop is one of the loveliest indies in London, and it may have to close down. PLEASE support them if you can and share widely.
Tomorrow evening I’ll be talking about Moonlight Express at @waterstones Kensington High Street with @shafikmeghji.bsky.social so please come along and join us for what will be a very fun event talking all things sleeper trains!
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An Evening with Monisha Rajesh - Kensington
Join us for a wonderful evening of conversation with Monisha Rajesh, as she discusses her recent book Moonlight Express
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August 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Tomorrow evening I’ll be talking about Moonlight Express at @waterstones Kensington High Street with @shafikmeghji.bsky.social so please come along and join us for what will be a very fun event talking all things sleeper trains!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...
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Looking forward to speaking to @monisharajesh.bsky.social about her brilliant book #MoonlightExpress tomorrow evening at @waterstones.bsky.social Kensington in London 🚞
Still time to book your spot 🎟️
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Still time to book your spot 🎟️
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An Evening in conversation with Monisha Rajesh | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening in conversation with Monisha Rajesh today.
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August 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Looking forward to speaking to @monisharajesh.bsky.social about her brilliant book #MoonlightExpress tomorrow evening at @waterstones.bsky.social Kensington in London 🚞
Still time to book your spot 🎟️
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Still time to book your spot 🎟️
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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Rod Liddle thought migrants from India wouldn't have a clue about politics or voting. They'd think they were ordering the Bombay aloo. "I suppose this last comment will be considered a racist aside" he writes: yes, it is explicitly racist.
August 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Rod Liddle thought migrants from India wouldn't have a clue about politics or voting. They'd think they were ordering the Bombay aloo. "I suppose this last comment will be considered a racist aside" he writes: yes, it is explicitly racist.
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Your reminder that Rod Liddle thought all minority groups could be belittled and mocked. In that respect he was equal opportunities. 0/10 for originality for using The One Joke.
August 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Your reminder that Rod Liddle thought all minority groups could be belittled and mocked. In that respect he was equal opportunities. 0/10 for originality for using The One Joke.
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Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.
August 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.
Thrilled to announce that Moonlight Express is a Waterstones Book of the Month for August! lots of signed copies available for armchair travellers..
August 1, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Thrilled to announce that Moonlight Express is a Waterstones Book of the Month for August! lots of signed copies available for armchair travellers..
The good people at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social have seen my beautiful new paperback even before I have and I am very envious as I’m on a train in Japan. Please get your pre-orders in for Moonlight Express for the end of this month!
July 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
The good people at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social have seen my beautiful new paperback even before I have and I am very envious as I’m on a train in Japan. Please get your pre-orders in for Moonlight Express for the end of this month!
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UK charity funding school at heart of illegal Israeli settlement expansion
UK charity funding school at heart of illegal Israeli settlement expansion
Friends of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron sent nearly £200,000 to school in Hebron – where Israel has been accused of imposing apartheid – between 2019 and 2024
A British charity is funding a religious school at the heart of expansion plans for the illegal Israeli settlement in the Palestinian city of Hebron.
Friends of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron sent nearly £200,000 to the school between 2019 and 2024, the last year for which accounts are publicly available on the website of the Charity Commission, the charity regulator for England and Wales. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
UK charity funding school at heart of illegal Israeli settlement expansion
Moonlight Express in paperback now available for pre-order! Out in a few weeks! www.waterstones.com/book/moonlig...
July 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Moonlight Express in paperback now available for pre-order! Out in a few weeks! www.waterstones.com/book/moonlig...
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Tell us about your fave journey in 1 sentence - win all these books!
Thanks for the signed books to
@mickhamer.bsky.social
@christianwolmar.bsky.social
@monisharajesh.bsky.social
@lauralaker.bsky.social
@petedyson.bsky.social
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Thanks for the signed books to
@mickhamer.bsky.social
@christianwolmar.bsky.social
@monisharajesh.bsky.social
@lauralaker.bsky.social
@petedyson.bsky.social
[Comp not associated with BlueSky]
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Competition: tell us your favourite journey
What's your favourite journey by sustainable transport? Tell us in one sentence, and you could win a transport-tastic book bundle in celebration of Better Transport Week!
bettertransport.org.uk
June 16, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Tell us about your fave journey in 1 sentence - win all these books!
Thanks for the signed books to
@mickhamer.bsky.social
@christianwolmar.bsky.social
@monisharajesh.bsky.social
@lauralaker.bsky.social
@petedyson.bsky.social
[Comp not associated with BlueSky]
bettertransport.org.uk/better-trans...
Thanks for the signed books to
@mickhamer.bsky.social
@christianwolmar.bsky.social
@monisharajesh.bsky.social
@lauralaker.bsky.social
@petedyson.bsky.social
[Comp not associated with BlueSky]
bettertransport.org.uk/better-trans...
Because Israel has killed more journalists than anyone ever before
?
?
Journalism has never been a more dangerous pursuit
Journalism has never been a more dangerous pursuit
Facts can be expensive in a dangerous world. I have covered some brutal wars during my three decades at the Guardian, but journalists are now actively targeted in a way I have never seen
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Because Israel has killed more journalists than anyone ever before
?
?
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Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?
May 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?
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Keir Starmer has told @theobserveruk.bsky.social: “There’s a reason that [Farage] is walking away from interviews where questions are being put to him. He doesn’t want to answer the questions because he knows that those answers are not going to be very good for him.”
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Farage could face byelection over crypto king’s £5m donation
The Reform leader faces two possible investigations over the undeclared gift from Christopher Harborne. A lengthy Commons suspension could lead to a recall petition – and end up costing him his Clacto...
observer.co.uk
May 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Keir Starmer has told @theobserveruk.bsky.social: “There’s a reason that [Farage] is walking away from interviews where questions are being put to him. He doesn’t want to answer the questions because he knows that those answers are not going to be very good for him.”
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
I took my kids on a ten-day screen-free interrailing holiday and it was the best trip we ever did.
www.cntraveller.com/article/how-...
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I banned screens on a European 10-day train trip with my kids – this is what happened
Monisha Rajesh wonders whether her daughters will go off the rails once the usual entertainment is out of reach while navigating some of Europe's most fabulous cities
www.cntraveller.com
May 4, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I took my kids on a ten-day screen-free interrailing holiday and it was the best trip we ever did.
www.cntraveller.com/article/how-...
www.cntraveller.com/article/how-...
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There are controversial ideas worthy of debate. But “Tommy Robinson” is simply a criminal racist. Platforming him utterly discredits the Oxford Union. I once accepted an invitation from them only to be replaced & ghosted, but never again.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2607486...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2607486...
Tommy Robinson ‘secretly invited’ to speak at Oxford Union
Tommy Robinson has reportedly been "secretly invited" to speak at an Oxford Union debate this month.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
May 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
There are controversial ideas worthy of debate. But “Tommy Robinson” is simply a criminal racist. Platforming him utterly discredits the Oxford Union. I once accepted an invitation from them only to be replaced & ghosted, but never again.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2607486...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2607486...