Each week Reaction Weekend brings you Favourite Things – interviews with interesting people about the skills, hobbies, pleasures and past times that make them who they are.

Kia Abdullah is an author and travel writer from London. Her novel Take It Back was named a thriller of the year by The Guardian and Telegraph; recommended in The New York Times, The Sunday Times and Observer; and selected for an industry-first audio serialisation by HarperCollins and The Pigeonhole. She is also the founder of Asian Booklist, a nonprofit that promotes diversity in publishing. Her follow-up novel, Truth Be Told, is out now.

These are a few of her favourite things…