Anita Nair is the author of The Better Man, Ladies Coupe, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting, Idris: Keeper of the Light, Alphabet Soup for Lovers and Eating Wasps. She has also authored a crime series. Her other books include a collection of essays titled Goodnight & God Bless and six books for children. She has also translated T.S.Pillai's Malayalam cult classic Chemmeen.