 In 2013 his second novel "You Should Have Come Here When You Were Not Here" was published and received positive reviews in New Zealand.The book follows a trip by a middle-aged woman to Paris, who instead of finding it the city of love, experiences it as a cold and disorienting place.The book was based on Gnanalingam's time spent in Paris between 2012 and 2013 His third novel, "Credit in the Straight World" (2015), "a satirical account of the global financial crisis," was reviewed in "Landfall," a New Zealand literary journal established in 1947, which "The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English" describes as