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Off Air with Jane & Fi: Off Air Extra, 13 June

Bestselling British author Kate Mosse joined Jane Garvey & Fi Glover on their radio show, Off Air on Times ...

13/06/2025

The Taliban letters: one woman writes in freedom, the other in fear

A letter exchange between Paranda writer Parand and best-selling British author Kate ...

08/06/2025

Elif Shafak: The five emotional books that have shaped me

My Dear Kabul (Coronet Books, 2024) was highlighted by Turkish-British novelist and essayist Elif Shafak as one of ...

05/04/2025

‘We’re like mice in a trap’ — tales of ordinary life for women in Kabul

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week was highlighted in The Sunday Times Culture ...

09/03/2025

My Dear Kabul is Book of the Week

BBC Radio 4 My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) was Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 from 3 to 8 March ...

08/03/2025

Global Issues

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 was highlighted in Radio ...

07/03/2025

Afghan women facing an uncertain future

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) was reviewed by Cyrus Naji – In Brief, 7 March 2025.

07/03/2025

A chronicle of courage: the programme keeping Afghan women’s words alive

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) was featured by writer Martin Wright for Positive ...

29/01/2025

Behind the veil: recounting the lives of Afghan women in books

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) was featured by writer and social media strategist Debasree ...

16/01/2025

How sisterhood of writers helped Afghan women through Taliban takeover

Two of the 21 women writers of My Dear Kabul (Coronet, ...

27/12/2024

“One of the most important books to have been published this year…”

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) was chosen by Inside Time as one of ...

16/12/2024

Five books to read during Christmas and the winter holidays

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) was picked by Today Radio news reader Sasha Kehoe and ...

16/12/2024

Live from the Amnesty Amplify Festival

Parwana Fayyaz, Afghan poet, scholar, author of Forty Names (Carcanet Press, 2021), co-editor and ...

07/12/2024

My Dear Kabul: The shared pain of women writers in Afghanistan

One of 21 My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) writers, Freshta, shares her experience of working with ...

08/10/2024

Portholes: Preview

Sunila Galappatti talks to Colin Grant about ‘Portholes’, her ...

08/10/2024

Meet the Afghan women writers who witnessed the fall of Kabul

Georgina Godwin speaks to Untold director, Lucy Hannah, and co-editor, Sunila Galappatti, about the ...

06/10/2024

“…despairing, hopeful, fascinatingly detailed and fiercely brave”

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read in September 2024. Author Lissa ...

01/10/2024

The Afghan women writers who bore witness to the fall of Kabul

Marie, among the 21 contributors to My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024), and two of the book’s ...

09/09/2024

Afghan women writers ‘want their voices heard’

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) translator Parwana Fayyaz was interviewed by BBC ...

05/09/2024

“These writings in translation honour the individuality of Afghan women and their voices”

My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) featured in Southasia Review of Books as part of Women in ...

28/08/2024

Exploring the contradictions of a state in A Fistful of Moonlight

Writer Priyadarshini Gauri reviewed A Fistful of Moonlight (MacLehose Press UK & BEE ...

26/08/2024

Three years ago this month America withdrew from Afghanistan

The Economist reviewed My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) alongisde War & Peace & ...

20/08/2024

The realities of life under Taliban rule, as told by the women of Afghanistan

Service95 is a global editorial platform founded by Dua Lipa. In this exclusive extract from My ...