“The thing about literary masterclasses is you have to give value — real value,” says Alexandra Pringle, former Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury, in the authoritative tone of a woman who has spent decades publishing Nobel prizewinners like Abdulrazak Gurnah and bestsellers like Eat, Pray, Love. We are sitting at a dinner feast under the Moroccan stars, bathed in the light of a thousand candles. Literally. Toasting our togetherness, eating lamb with hot, crusty bread and home-grown greens. This is as dreamy and five-star as a masterclass could be, the equivalent of a luxury cruise for literature, where instead of champagne buffets you get story structure, and instead of on-board entertainment you get lessons on texture and tonality. Pringle runs the Silk Road Slippers Masterclass alongside Faiza S. Khan and Alex von Tunzelmann, both literary stars in their own right. Added to this constellation are guest authors like Colum McCann, Samantha Harvey, and Maggie O’Farrell. This week, we have with us the Somali-British novelist Nadifa Mohamed. She talks about her debut book Black Mamba Boy and her …