Shubnum Khan

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years — Multnomah County Library The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years — Khan, Shubnum, — "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths t...

Try The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by @shubnumkhan.bsky.social if you're looking for "Fall vibes but literary fiction more so than light romance." #AskALibrarian

The cover of “The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years”, which has the title in front of a woman looking to our right, covered in a translucent red garment. Shadows of hands rise from the bottom.

“The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years” by @shubnumkhan.bsky.social is a gorgeously written tale of small magics and great losses. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Exterior of Bradford Waterstones! A magnificent old building.

Bradford Waterstones interior. A beautiful old building full of beautiful books.

Bradford City Hall in the sunshine, happy folks wandering and playing in the fountains in the foreground.

To Bradford this evening for a wonderful Bradford Literature Festival event with @genevievecogman.bsky.social and @shubnumkhan.bsky.social - and an excellent interviewer I failed to note the name of! Fascinating chat to listen to and Bradford looking rather fine in the sunshine.

I'm in the middle of trying to write three different things and let me tell you I forgot, writing is HARD.

On recognising the shape of yourself A little essay on the feeling that comes with knowing yourself

I almost never use Substack in the correct way, but anyway I wrote something about how the world feels when you live in it as yourself: shubnumkhan.substack.com/p/on-recogni...

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years/ The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil is longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award! 💃https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/prize-years/2025/

Page from the book 'How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo and Other Strange and Wonderful Stories.' Finger tips keeping the book open can be seen at the bottom.

'On the edge you see all kinds of things.'

This page from Shubnum Khan's 'How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo and Other Strange and Wonderful Stories' has sat in my head for a while.

A book finds you, sometimes, like a stranger finds you in a crowd; for a brief moment your eyes meet, for a time you live a lifetime in a single gaze before the crowd pulls you on.

2024: The year I made my dream come true My US debut, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years came out in 2024. Here's the story of how I made it happen.

I’ve finally written about what it took to get The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years written and published after 12 years. It’s mostly about depression, hope, luck, kindness and betting on yourself. open.substack.com/pub/shubnumk...

'Soul of my soul': Iconic Palestinian grandfather killed by Israel in Gaza Khaled Nabhan, whose tribute to his slain granddaughter Reem went viral, was killed in the Nuseirat camp

'Soul of my soul': Iconic Palestinian grandfather killed by Israel in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/soul-my-soul-palestinian-man-killed-israeli-attack-central-gaza

Going around London in the cold signing copies of my books.

Thanks for the plug Lauren!

The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan London Book Launch Creative Writing Workshop and Book Launch

Hey London, you should try to catch the brilliant @shubnumkhan.bsky.social at her UK book launch tonight for her superb Durban Gothic historic Indian immigrant love story / current day bookish teen coming of age novel, The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-djinn-...

London is so cold man!!!! How am I supposed to walk in this weather!?

Books We Love Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

So proud of @shubnumkhan.bsky.social and @laurenmarkham.bsky.social for making it onto @npr.org's best of 2024! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

We’re so damn hard on ourselves.

We’ve made the move! ✨ hello book community. Let’s christen our feed with this year’s book of the year shortlist 🤩 we will be announcing the winner on December 1st
#books #reading #bookcommunity #readers #literature #poetry @margieorford.bsky.social @shubnumkhan.bsky.social

Launching the paperback of my UK debut novel with @beebabs.bsky.social in London next week. Clink the link in my bio to book tickets and all profits go to Palestine, Sudan and Lebanon. Please share x

Sometimes I think I am not a writer (how foolish I am, how I fool myself into thinking I know anything about how to use words) then I read something I wrote and I think, ah, you were made for this, it is as clear as the sun in the sky.

Decay, Rot, and Plenty of Hauntings: The Best Gothic Novels of 2024 We are living in dire times and decaying homes, diseased bodies and disastrous policies, dark visions and disturbed mentalities. Perhaps that why the gothic revival continues apace, with 2024 as th…

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years makes it on @literaryhub.bsky.social Crime Reads list of ten best Gothic novels of 2024 crimereads.com/best-gothic-...

Yes!!

Feels sortof nice to start fresh.

From a Sale, Lace Undergarments, Never Worn (Published 2021) My mother told me if I didn’t marry by 25, I would end up “on the shelf.” Still single at 36, I’m learning to appreciate the view.

I wrote about being single and life with my parents for
@nytimes.com Modern Love series. It feels incredibly unreal (and scary) to share this story but also, wonderful because I know how far we've come. Alhamdulilah for everything. www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/s...

I always go into everything thinking I’m writing a great love story and I always come out of it writing something about someone finding themselves and really when I think about it that is the best kind of love story.

I finished the Covenant of Water last week and My Brilliant Friend this week and both are deeply moving and dense navigations of generations of family and friends and how time moves and changes not only us, but the landscape around us and I feel utterly spent.

The first thing I did when I came on here was search my novel title to see what people have said in the last 10 months and it's been nice!

I'm very delayed but thanks for this!