Monisha Rajesh is a British author and award-winning journalist with a penchant for riding around the world by train. In 2010 Monisha spent four months travelling the length and breadth of Indian Railways, which became her first book, Around India in 80 Trains, and then upscaled for her next book, Around the World in 80 Trains, which won the National Geographic Traveller Award for best travel book and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Monisha’s latest book Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year and won the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Awards for non-fiction book of the year. She writes for The Financial Times, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller and is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveller magazine.