An evening with author Tawseef Khan

Name: An evening with author Tawseef Khan
Start: 2024-11-05T19:30:00+01:00
Location: 95 Town Street, Farsley, LS28 5HX Leeds, United Kingdom

Schedule

Tue Nov 05 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

95 Town Street, Farsley, LS28 5HX Leeds, United Kingdom | Leeds, EN

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we will be joined in the shop for an evening with qualified immigration solicitor, Tawseef Khan as he discusses his latest modern contemporary fiction Determination’.
With no time for friends, family or even herself (never mind a needy partner), Jamila’s life feels hectic and out of control. Then a breakdown of sorts forces her to seek change – to pursue her own happiness while navigating the endless expectations that the world seems to have of her, and still committing herself to a career devoted to helping others. In this polyphonic, assured and character-driven debut, we meet the staff of Shah & Co Solicitors, who themselves arrived in the UK not too long ago, and their clients, more recent arrivals who are made to jump through hoops to create a life for themselves whilst trying to achieve some semblance of normality.
Tawseef Khan is a qualified immigration solicitor and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool, where he examined the fairness of the British asylum system. He is also a graduate of the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia, where he received the Seth Donaldson Memorial Bursary. His fiction has appeared in Lighthouse and Test Signal: a Northern anthology; his non-fiction in the New York Times, The Face and Hyphen. His debut non-fiction book Muslim, Actually was published by Atlantic in 2021. He lives in Manchester.
This event is part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival. Doors open 6:30pm event starts 6:45pm