Name: Vengeance: Saima Mir in conversation
Start: 2024-10-18T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-18T19:30:00+01:00
Location: The Book Corner Halifax

Join Saima Mir in conversation with local publisher Hetha Duffy, as they talk about Saima's new novel Vengeance.
About this Event

Join Saima Mir and Hetha Duffy, as part of The Book Corner's and The Grayston Unity's TOWN Festival.

Saima will be in conversation with Hetha Duffy, publisher at Hebden Bridge-based Bluemoose Books, about the sequel to her best-selling debut The Khan. There will be a discussion and reading, followed by audience Q&A and book signing.

About Vengeance:

Two years into taking over her family’s organized crime syndicate in the north of England, Jia Khan stumbles on a notebook her father – the previous Khan – kept on arrival from Pakistan in the 1970s. What she finds there sends her deep into the past. But once the sleeping dogs from those years are woken, they are set for attack.

Worst of all, Jia must unravel a puzzling but terrible warning – one of her staff lies brutally slain, his corpse displayed in her garden despite her sophisticated security... Could there be a traitor in her midst?

SAIMA MIR is a journalist who has written for The Times, Guardian and Independent. Her debut novel, The Khan, was a Times Bestseller, a Guardian best crime and thriller and a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Her essay for It's Not About The Burqa (Picador) appeared in Guardian Weekend and received over 250,000 hits online in two days. She contributed to the anthology The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood. Saima grew up in Bradford, where she worked as a rookie crime reporter and now lives in London. Vengeance is her second novel.

HETHA DUFFY is a co-founder and director at Bluemoose Books. She loves to dance… her favourite job was teaching aerobics classes as it was closest thing to being a dancer she could manage.She qualified as a solicitor when her two sons were young and then joined the legal publishing business unit of Thomson Reuters 20 years ago where she continues to work as a people leader and DEI champion. She has edited and proofed many Bluemoose books over the years.