Rosie Thapa

Rosie lived for many years in Kathmandu, where she worked as an editorial & publishing consultant and wrote a collection of short stories. She now lives in the UK and is currently at work on a novel as part of her PhD at Lancaster University.

  • Dust

    The Ashoka Superstore has the biggest parking lot in Kathmandu. Sarita frowns as she looks down from the balcony of the staff canteen at the cars, jeeps and rows of motorcycles that shimmer in the heat, the sun bouncing off them in a blaze of colour. Customers move in the gaps between, a guard loads…

  • Up on the Roof

    It was unusual for the men to be called this early on a Friday. It was barely noon, and the sun beat on the back of Harka’s neck as he laid a brick and smoothed down the cement on either side. The walls were going up at last. This was the part he’d been waiting…