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Murder, mystery and 1950s Mumbai: Vaseem Khan’s latest crime series is led by a strong female detective

The British author tells us why he chose the fearless Persis Wadia as his heroine. The National, August 2020 Last year British crime writer Vaseem Khan was deep into another one of his enjoyably twisty narratives when […]

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This is a moment of reckoning’: How Naji Bakhti masterfully captures the anguish and indomitable spirit of Beirut in debut novel

The author manages to perfectly toe the line between trauma and comedy in a searing coming-of-age tale set in a post-civil-war city. The National, August 2020 The timing is staggering. Only a few paragraphs into Naji […]

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