The Cambridge Curry Club at Wordfest literary festival, April 14th 2012 … read more from thecity-litcafe

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Discussion with Dame Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge) and writers Ali Smith, Ruth Padel, Amanda Craig and Louisa Young on 19th May in London. Kettle's Yard event.

Cambridge Literary Luncheon, 4th November 2010

Guest Author (in the company of Booker Prize Winner Howard Jacobson) at the Cambridge Literary Luncheon, 4th November 2010.

Saumya Balsari is much in the vein of Kiran Desai and Arundhati Roy. Alexander McCall Smith

A truly charming BlackAmber title that I highly recommend, The Cambridge Curry Club. This is fascinating ... very much another in The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency territory. Sarah Broadhurst Ones to Watch, Paperback Preview: The Bookseller

Beautifully observed ... warm and poignant ... a delightful debut novel. Meera Syal

Unusual and provocative ... if you like a read with chuckles, this is it. Ronald Wolfe Writing Comedy

Balsari is at her best when describing the Asian characters working in IndiaNeed ... such is the quality of her character observation that the fact that the rest of the world have wandered in from a bad-tempered Tom Sharpe novel, and that the plot is raggedly farcical, is irrelevant. English PEN

A real feast of comedy and characters in a wonderful riotous, colourful mix.  Rosemary Hayes