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Editorial Director @saqibooks. Edits, rights (homophone) etc. Dissenters forthcoming @unbounders. Tomorrow there’ll be apricots 🍑

Joined December 2017
Pink is the new orange is the new black 🩷🖤 😍Thank you @unbounders, whose radical publishing allows me to write in a way just right for this book. Yes to it ALL 🙌 Link: unbound.com/books/dissenters
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Everyone: the world is burning The British: please keep your picturesque railway photos private or you will be removed thank you good day nice weather thank you 😂🥰
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Offering a Medieval emotional support dragon for whoever needs it✨
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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Thank you to everyone who came to yesterday’s event at @Wimbookfest chaired by Elizabeth Briggs in conversation with @haidari_batool, @ParwanaFayyaz and @NorthAndrew to discuss My Dear Kabul and War, Peace, War.
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Bit of stand decorating at Frankfurt Book Fair 🇵🇸
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How's yours going? I confess I'm struggling.
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A wide-ranging discussion of Palestinian literature and translation, with Saqi's very own @litfactivist youtube.com/watch?v=LfSV5WUy…
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Very hard to do work and life when Lebanon is being attacked and invaded. Yes, Lebanon. Not Hizbullah. Thinking of our authors, colleagues and friends, and country.
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We’re at 99 pre-orders of the 1st edition hardback bundle of #Dissenters @unbounders!🤩 Thank you so much! Is there some kind person interested in radical seventeenth century faiths up for bringing us to the 60% funded mark and tipping 99 into 💯? 👉 unbound.com/books/dissenters
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So proud to be published at @unbounders, particularly when they keep announcing such fantastic (and fantastic and rural) new books. pre-order placed ✅ Congratulations @robertashton1!
Our latest launch! Introducing Down to Earth by @robertashton1 🌽 The Wainwright Prize Longlisted author of Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay? returns to rediscover our roots through an exploration of the soil beneath our feet. Find out more: unbound.com/books/down-to-ea…
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The only writing advice I've ever printed out at put on my desk, from Rebecca Solnit. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-write…
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TINY BOOK NECKLACES ARE A THING. I REPEAT: TINY BOOK NECKLACES ARE A THING. CAPS LOCK ON.
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My Dear Kabul 💛💙 @britishlibrary with the extraordinary @bbclysedoucet and the Afghan women writers group keeping hope alive.
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Thank you @WritersUntold for the invitation and an incredible - and incredibly moving - evening.
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Elizabeth I, all time Sass Kween 💅🏼 👑 ‘If you know not me, you know nobody’ @GuildhallLib @heritageopenday
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