Stories by Muneeza Shamsie
Maha Khan Phillips (nee Maha Khan) is a Karachi-born fiction writer and an award-winning financial journalist. She...
Published 18 Jan, 2026 06:44am
Alamgir Hashmi’s 12th collection of verse consists of diverse, lyrical English poems that combine elegance and subtlety with...
Published 19 Oct, 2025 09:55am
An unusual collection of verse explores themes of nature and the environment and humanity’s attempts to mould them and co-exist
Published 06 Jun, 2025 07:41pm
You have been back in your London home for several months now, after a year in different hospitals, following your...
Updated 17 Nov, 2024 11:24am
Hanif Kureishi’s new book is a riveting and courageous memoir about the accident that left him paralysed and his experiences
Published 17 Nov, 2024 07:57am
The latest poetry collection from a leading British poet of Pakistani origin contemplates the veracity and interpretation of words
Published 22 Sep, 2024 08:46am
A second collection inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry uses the great Urdu poet’s poems as starting points for the English...
Published 12 Nov, 2023 07:22am
A translation into English of a spectacular 19th century poem provides important insights in South Asia’s cultural and literary...
Published 07 May, 2023 08:08am
Many congratulations on winning the Writers’ Guild Award for The Return of Faraz Ali, a riveting, carefully structured novel...
Published 22 Apr, 2023 07:14am
Regular Books & Authors columnist Zulfikar Ghose, who passed away end of June, was a towering man of letters and among the...
Published 17 Jul, 2022 01:59pm
Gopi Chand Narang’s gem of a critical analysis of ‘Urdu’s first complete poet’ is translated into English for the first time
Published 26 Jun, 2022 11:21am
A scholar of environmental studies traces the linkages between Pakistani women’s creative works and eco-feminism
Published 24 Apr, 2022 07:19am
Aamer Hussein’s creative memoir is a book of such great riches and, indeed, courage, that it is difficult to put it down
Published 02 Jan, 2022 09:26am
A debut poetry collection showcases a poet with great promise and has much to offer, including pertinent and topical comment on
Published 19 Sep, 2021 09:58am
An unusual debut novel weaves together fantasy and harsh reality in the service of a vision of a more humane world...
Published 23 May, 2021 06:06am
A Kashmir-born British writer’s latest book, like his past four, is a lyrical, multi-layered exploration of his dual inheritance
Published 14 Mar, 2021 06:57am
A pioneering and riveting account, of the mostly Muslim Indian soldiers who fought in the Second World War, is a labour of love...
Published 20 Sep, 2020 06:56am
The latest novel by the multiple award-winning Romesh Gunesekra is a haunting and poetic foray into a newly indepe...
Published 29 Mar, 2020 07:36am
The significance of an original collection of Pakistani English poetry lies in its ambition and desire to transcend...
Updated 02 Feb, 2020 08:04am
Three collections by British poets give Pakistani English poetry new dimensions
Published 11 Aug, 2019 07:06am
