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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Jennie Godfrey |Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Shahid Mehmood |Abbas Nasir
The List of Suspicious ThingsBy Jennie GodfreyPenguinISBN: 978-1804942949455pp. From 1975 to 1980, a horrendous murderer by the name of Peter Sutcliffe terrorised Yorkshire by killing no less than 13 women (some of them prostitutes) and severely injuring several others.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Amin Ahmed |Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
Love Letters to a Serial KillerBy Tasha CoryellOrion BooksISBN: 978-1-398-71673-5320pp. It would be uncharitable to discredit all the effort Tasha Coryell has put into writing this beach-read disguised as a psychological thriller. However, Orion Books can be more justifiably censured for publishing Love Letters to a Serial Killer.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Iftikhar A. Khan |Ammar Khan
No Funeral for NaziaBy Taha KeharLiberty PublishingISBN: 978-627-7626-29-7230pp. Liberty Publishing is to be commended on their good taste in choosing to print and disseminate Taha Kehar’s well-written and fascinating novel, No Funeral For Nazia, originally published by Neem Tree Press.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Muhammad Amir Rana |Mubarak Zeb Khan |Abbas Nasir
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible ThingBy Mathew PerryHeadlineISBN: 978-1472295972272pp. The world will always remember Matthew Perry as the delightful Chandler Bing on Friends, but the supreme irony that this memoir underscores relentlessly is that this man, who could make the whole world laugh, was privately one of the most tragic of figures.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana |Muna Khan
Tragedy and Defiance: The Lives and Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Forugh Farrokhzad and Perveen ShakirBy Mahmood Ali AyubApex Book PublishingISBN: 979-8990699342188pp. It is invariably a good sign when a writer does not allow tragedy and adversity to daunt him or her to the point where one’s writing ability is crippled.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Sophie Hannah |Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Kamran Abbasi |Ahmad Fraz Khan
Hercule Poirot’s Silent NightBy Sophie HannahHarperCollinsISBN: 978-00-6299-163-8360pp. About a decade ago, the estate and heirs of Agatha Christie, the acclaimed ‘Queen of Crime’, approved the choice of mystery writer Sophie Hannah to continue Christie’s literary legacy by writing more novels featuring the great fictional detective Hercule Poirot.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Public Figures |Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Tariq Khosa |Abbas Nasir
Earth & Glimmer: Poetry & ProseBy Haya Fatima SehgalLiberty PublishingISBN: 978-627-7626-24-2137pp.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Mahira Sarfraz |Asfa Sultan |Ali Khayam
Mightier: A Selection from the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women 2019-2023Edited by Syra Rashid VahidyReverie PublishersISBN: 978-627-7742-0-4-1265pp. For the past nearly half-a-dozen years, Syra Vahidy, the enterprising daughter of the late, respected Zeenat Haroon Rashid has been administering a prize in her mother’s name, in order to honour English-language fiction and non-fiction penned by upcoming Pakistani women writers.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Asfa Sultan |Navaira Ali Bangash |Abbas Nasir
A World of Her OwnBy Ada JafarayTranslated by Aamir Jafarey with Asra JafareyHaripur Sungi PressISBN: 1000000097219430pp. Ada Jafarey is widely regarded by Urdu literary circles as the ‘first lady of Urdu poetry’. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the President’s Pride of Performance (for literature), the Adamjee Literary Award and the Kamal-i-Fan accolade.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Pti .. |Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Raza Rumi |Akbar Ahmed
Lewis Carroll’s Alice once famously noted: “What is the good of a book without pictures and conversation?” When it comes to gripping stories, especially fairy-tales she was absolutely correct. Notable art crimes investigative expert Noah Charney and award-winning Balkan studies specialist Svetlana Slapsak have produced a lovely and highly informative volume of Slavic myths, richly illustrated with intriguing black and white pictures throughout.
