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Booklist says The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is ‘beautifully written with intriguing characters’

Booklist just released their review of The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years and I’m pleased to say that it’s a good one. Please find it below: Issue: November 1, 2023 The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years. By Shubnum Khan Jan. 2024. 320p. Viking, $28 (9780593653456); e-book (9780593653463) Trying to […]

Publishers Weekly calls The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years ‘poignant US debut’

So I haven’t published a novel before in the US and I’m still learning the ways things are done in the industry. My US editor and agent have been both helpful and kind in explaining things to me. Apparently after you get the book deal (another post I have to […]

Hello Brother: Remembering the Christchurch Mosque Massacre

When I woke up on 15 March 2019 to the news that 51 Muslims praying at two mosques in New Zealand had been murdered by a white supremacist, I wept.