On Wednesday 16 September 2026, Laura Devine Immigration hosted a Literary Lounge with Reeta Chakrabarti to discuss her first novel Finding Belle.

Reeta Chakrabarti is a British journalist, newsreader and correspondent for BBC News. She is known for presenting BBC News at Six, at Ten, and the Weekend News

Mona Arshi interviewed Reeta during the Literary Lounge. Mona is a British poet and novelist who won the Forward Prize for Poetry, Best First Collection in 2015 for her debut collection, Small Hands. She has also won the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her debut novel, Somebody Loves You, was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. She is a former lawyer.

A raffle on the evening benefitted the Keats Shelley Young Romantics Poetry and Essay Prizes. This competition began in 2015 and is run by the Keats Shelley Memorial Association, a charity which was founded in 1903 to maintain and support the Keats Shelley House at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome, where the English poet John Keats died in 1821. As part of their ongoing commitment to poetry lovers, they publish the scholarly Keats-Shelley Review and Young Romantic Writing Prizes to find the most promising poets and essayists from around the world.