It’s #WorldBookDay and this morning I am taking a moment to remember and celebrate my three published novels. My inner child is fainting with excitement. No matter what’s happening with my writing career right now, I HAVE to remember this is still an achievement 🤓

Vengeance by Saima Mir is out in paperback today! The trilling and gritty sequel to The Khan 🩸⚖️ Available to buy now! bit.ly/4jyB0vM

I'm really looking forward to Crime Cymru and my chat with Saima Mir

THOBELA BAGAESU: Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate #CelebrateAfrika 16

The McGonagle Reader audio-tactile voting device enables blind and partially sighted people to vote independently and in secret. If you live in Bristol, you can use it to vote in the local elections on 1 May. 1/2

If I could go back and tell my younger self something, it would be that most of the free spirits, who never cared much about money and work, actually knew they were going to get a big inheritance at some point.

"There are cultural issues that we still have to face, and in some ways are getting worse." Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's new book, To Be Young, Gifted and Black, draws on her experience of raising a family of seven brilliant young classical musicians.

According to multiple sources the M&S / Co-op 'hacks' likely involved a hacker calling the IT helpdesk. (“Hi, I’ve lost access. Can you reset my password?”) Most people picture hackers as hoodie-wearing geniuses cracking code. In reality, 'social engineering' is the start. 1/

Book Tour ‘To Be Young, Gifted and Black’ Oneworld Publications starts in Nottingham today 🎉 More dates to come..

I went through a liver transplant almost a year ago. I will unfortunately soon need a kidney transplant as well. Please pass along my story and all the information needed about donation. I would greatly appreciate it ❤️ nkr.org/KMC836

Don’t Show Them Our Wounds Stop. Don’t show them the ribs of our starved children again— not their eyes, vacant like desert moons. Don’t show them our grandmothers kneeling by graves, white shrouds trembling in their arms, thirsty with memory, another Nakba, tears sealed

This month's stop on my literary tour of Yorkshire is Bradford. Find out why author Saima Mir called it ‘a beautiful and misunderstood city', discover some brilliant Bradford-set fiction and why I love Bradford Literature Festival helenafairfax.com/2025/05/31/a-l… #bradford2025

Deadline tomorrow.

Neil Broadfoot Little, Brown UK Waterstones Durham Brian McGilloway David Henry Headley DHH Literary Agency Daniel Aubrey HarperNorth HarperInsider at HarperCollins Hemlock Press G. D. Wright Avon Books UK Heather Critchlow Canelo Crime Canelo Sharon Bolton Jacqueline Sutherland Point Blank Oneworld for Booksellers Oneworld Publications Juliet Mabey Graham Bartlett Clare Whitfield Trevor Wood Quercus Books Quercus for Booksellers Michael Malone (The J is silent) Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 Clare Mackintosh Women's Prize Sarah Govett Chris Pavone Head of Zeus Holly Watt Fiona Cummins Pan Mac News Pan Macmillan Day 18 #NationalCrimeReadingMonth by suggestion is #SaimaMir Point Blank Oneworld Publications Oneworld for Booksellers Juliet Mabey margot weale Saima Mir

Silicon Valley is obsessed with AGI. But depending on who you ask, AGI is either a scientific goal, a religion or "vibes and snake oil." So I wanted to know—what exactly is AGI? And why we're unlikely to see it anytime soon. on.ft.com/4kZdER6

Celebrate the #SouthAsian diaspora with our selection of books for adults and young people for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth 📚hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus… 📚hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus… Prof. Pragya Agarwal mainly elsewhere now fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧 Mohsin Zaidi Sathnam Sanghera Nadiya Jamir Hussain Dr Amir Khan GP Zohra Nabi Hiba Noor Khan

Been to the writersmosaic at #BradfordLitFest in the City of Culture today 😍 So interesting to hear about the work of 3 fiction crime writers Kia Abdullah Saima Mir & Nadine Matheson. Bought 1 book, think I’ll be buying the other 2 very soon! 📚 #Bradford #GlobalCrimeQueens

Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant Eloghosa Osunde Eloghosa about their excellent new novel Necessary Fiction which celebrates queer lives in contemporary Nigeria. 4th Estate Books Next Thursday 7pm Foyles Bookshop bit.ly/3IJNFPG

📍 'A novel that will stay with you forever' Saima Mir WHO WILL REMAIN is a powerful new novel of family and ambition from acclaimed author Kasim Ali. Out now!