I've never met Asia but I feel I know her. She was in my Faber Academy class in 2015 and I knew her work was going to attract attention.

I was right, she's been shortlisted for the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller prize with her novel "Hard Play".

Something you may not know about Asia though is she is also known as Asia Trotter which she thinks makes her sound like some specialist travel agent.