Asian Booklist: November 2024
Discover new books by British-Asian authors
Update from Kia
Hello,
This month, I’m thinking about how we salvage things; the things we do both big and small to fix a bad day, week, month, year.
I booked my trip to China very last-minute as a way to salvage a bad year. The trip was everything I had hoped it would be: fun but calm, busy but restorative. Now when I look back on 2024, it won’t only be the year that my family was plagued by health problems, or the year my mortgage payments went through the roof, or the year that myriad other things went wrong. It will also be the year that I did an epic trip on my own.
We can’t erase or even neutralise the bad things that happen to us, but we can do things to inject some positivity into the bad. I guess the key is to identify and practise the things that actually help us do that. For me, boxing is a way to salvage a bad day or week, time with friends salvages a bad month and a big trip salvages a bad year.
I’m now ready to get back to work. Book Five is very nearly done and I’ll share more news about that soon. In the meantime, here’s what’s coming up.
Kia x
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New books by British-Asian authors
7 November 2024
Why Don’t Things Fall Up?: and Six Other Science Lessons You Missed at School
Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Could you explain why ice cream melts? Have you forgotten why scientists think the universe started with a Big Bang, and do you understand the difference between respiration and breathing? Why Don't Things Fall Up? will gently remind you of everything you may have learnt once upon a time, but have somehow forgotten along the way […]
7 November 2024
Ballet Besties: Indu’s Time to Shine
Indu loves learning ballet at Shimmer & Shine, her local community dance school. Unlike her friends, she doesn’t want to be a principal dancer when she grows up, and she’s a bit scared of being on stage, but it’s still one of her favourite hobbies. Until Miss Diamond announces that this term they’ll be putting on a performance of Cinderella! Suddenly everyone’s talking about what lead role they want and how fun it will be to dance for an audience, and Indu is feeling nervous and left out. […]
28 November 2024
City of Destruction
Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighbours. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin's co-conspirators – aided by agents from Britain’s MI6 security service – Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines […]
Books out last month
1 October 2024
You’re Snug With Me
At the start of winter, two bear cubs are born, deep in their den in the frozen North. “Mama, what lies beyond here?” they ask. “Above us is a land of ice and snow.” “What lies beyond the ice and snow?” they ask. “The ocean, full of ice from long ago.” And, so, the bears learn the secrets of the Earth and their place in it […]
3 October 2024
Muslims Don’t Matter
Three grandfathers killed on the streets of England in three separate incidents by three different men. Each targeted simply for being Muslim. Each attack a consequence of the insidious rise in Islamophobia in Britain. From the far-right violence that broke out in summer 2024 to the hatred directed at Muslims in public life during the Gaza conflict, anti-Muslim racism is dangerously out-of-control […]
3 October 2024
Reggie Rabbit and The Ghost of Seagull Rock
Reggie Rabbit isn’t sure about his best friend Pipsquark’s other best friend, Kai. She seems too good to be true and he doesn’t believe her stories about the terrifying ghost that is haunting Seagull Rock, where her family live. But when Reggie and Pipsquark are invited to Kai’s for a sleepover, they hear the ghost howling with their own ears! Could it really be the phantom of seagull pirate Blackbeak? Or is something else afoot? […]
Editor’s choice
There’s no editor’s choice this month as very few British-Asian authors are being published in Nov/Dec (sadly, to make way for the big Christmas books). 😕
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