First novel, Trussed, published in 2006 by Serpent's Tail Read more here. Other works include: 'Cycling' for The Flash anthology of flash fiction, April 2007, 'Scissors, paper, stone' for BBC Radio 4, October 2006; 'Tiger, tiger, burning bright' for Quartet, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2006; 'Give a man luck (throw him into the sea)' for Fugue Literary Journal ; and 'Kolambe' for opendemocracy.net and the Toronto Review of Contemporary Literature Abroad.
Reviews
Told at breakneck speed, Trussed is a brilliant tragi-comedy that's short on melodrama and long on laughs' Diva
'Shiromi Pinto's first novel is fast, blackly funny and so cool that it hurts.' The Times, March 2006
'Pinto combines the hilarious and the devastating to incredible effect' Book Munch, April 2006
'Sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, it’s a truly contemporary novel that’ll appeal to the now-matured Generation X' Gay Times, April 2006
'an audacious debut novel' The Independent on Sunday, July 2006
Previous appearances @ Tales of the Decongested, Foyles; the b club, GE Club; London Limin' 2006, Great Eastern Hotel, London; Bath Literature Festival April 2006; @ Bloomsbury Theatre, etc as part of 2004 Tell Tales tour; and @ Barbican Pit, London, CCA Glasgow, Victoria & Albert Museum as part of RenaissanceOne's 2003-04 Kin tour.
