Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes John Keats fatherhood and generational traumas with

fatherhood and generational traumas with a secular search for meaning and faith in the lived experience to help make sense of who and what we are

author of The Flames

mischievous new collection

From ‘My Coney’ (written in 1952 when Berger was just twenty-six) to ‘They Are the Last’ written in 2008

Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country by Maithreyi Hughes John Keats fatherhood and generational traumas withPublished 2nd July 2026 Across the nine interlinked sections of her debut collection, Maithreyi Hughes explores what it means to be vulnerable and curious in the wilderness of civilisation. Here, politics becomes an instinctive expression of morality; animals are fellow travellers; travel a form of detachment rather than escape. Myth and irony share a lens; belonging folds into longing. In 'Borrowed Cardigan', Hughes reflects on her time as a literary