Many congratulations to @niven_govinden Nikita Gill Neema Shah on publication of three superb books today. (Something about the letter ‘N’ in the air!) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Do go and check their books out to bring plenty of hope and joy during these locked-in days.

This is a brilliant #LGBTHM21 article by @Prishita_MA on LGBTQ+ activism in post-colonial states. Also, everything gal-dem publishes is 💥

New book. Would never have wanted this to be the subject - but so glad it’s in such incredible hands. Won’t be talking about it too much on here, so this one is just to say Thank you @transitbks DGA. And 💙Ruth Armstrong Dr Amy Ludlow @JustisTogether #JackMerritt

What is the human cost of shame?

#TheGoodGirls by Sonia Faleiro returns to the scene of the short lives and shocking deaths of two young girls that sparked a national conversation about sex, honour and violence.

📔 bit.ly/TheGoodGirlsAm…

Excited to see (M)otherhood in The Bookseller highlights. It is my story as a brown woman (we do not hear many of these) but also an intersectional analysis: hopefully honest & intimate but universal at same time. It is about so much. Nerve-wracking to see it becoming a reality.

📣 #Podcast EP 29 w/ Adiba Jaigirdar (updates) is finally here! Adiba is the author of 'The Henna Wars', and 'Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating'. She shares with us her journey from Bangladesh, to Saudi Arabia to Ireland, her sense of identity & belonging + her motivations for writing. 🙌🏾 🌈

This is exactly the ethos of this platform and festival, to support authors, to create a community.

My copies of #WWKWTS : Talking with children about race are here this morning. 🎉🎉🎉

So unbelievable to see them in print. Can’t believe we made this happen!!

Adania Shibli’s 'Minor Detail' is brutal in its exploration of political violence towards women and the normalisation and erasure of this when it comes to national memorialisation, writes Selin Genc.

Read Selin's review here: bit.ly/3ds5u1H

I had the incredible pleasure of reading an advance copy of the English translation of @sumanyoga's novel (translated from the Turkish by Elizabeth Goksel: The Silence of Scheherazade, out 2021 from Head of Zeus), and I get to chat with her about it today! Details below.

This is printed out on a random paper & stuck next to my desk & I often sit quietly & stare at it because my 4 yr olds have started asking such ques & I keep wondering what it will take for them to feel ok being them in the sort of world that we're living in right now @mirajacob

I’m going to be bringing interviews with authors of colour in my newsletter to help diversify reading lists 1. If you‘re an author of colour with a book published recently let me know & I’d love to interview you 2. Pls send recommendations
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🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️

Our first guest! Dr Ahmad Dr Fauzia Ahmad spoke a/t sustaining an academic career as a S.Asian Muslim in precarious faculty positions through personal upheavals, department politics, and recently, a redundancy that was rescinded after advocacy from colleagues, unions.

If anyone is writing or planning a non-fiction book 👇🏼👇🏼

RBG was a huge personal inspiration for me with her relentless drive for gender equality & her views on motherhood. She showed that one doesn't have to be loud to make a difference, that being a 'difficult woman' is one we all need to aspire to. nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/1…

Behavioural scientist and activist Prof. Pragya Agarwal explains how unconscious bias, racism and gender inequality affect the way we communicate, how we perceive the world and our decision making.

Available here ➡️ bit.ly/3klSWew from 2pm.

4 yr old: ‘Mummy’s book’

Ventured out and such have been our recent times that this is the FIRST time I’ve seen my book published early April in a bookshop. In an actual bookshop with my own eyes. News From Nowhere

I have a book coming next month. It would be so good if you pre-order and share with others. Hopefully it will help anyone who is responsible for a child to navigate those somewhat complex - but very crucial- conversations around race, racism and racial identity. 👇🏼👇🏼

In Kashiana Singh's beautiful poem, ‘Pagri/Paggar/Pagadi/Pagg Turbans’, a father slowly folds his turban in front of his daughter, the intimate act of which is akin to the gradual unravelling of a poem.

Read her poem here: bit.ly/3jVq3WC

#LifeinLanguages #translation

My new novel TAMARIND & THE STAR OF ISHTA is out in September! You can preorder it here:
Amazon: bit.ly/Tamarind-pre-o…
Waterstones: bit.ly/3igrjU8
Hive: bit.ly/2NFzeMu