Sairish Hussain

Jun 6, 2024 | l8r.it | Daisy Buchanan |Breanne Mc Ivor |Santa Montefiore |Sairish Hussain

LoveReading Says Robyn Tessier, the young new owner of a chaotic used bookstore in Ballycove, Ireland, doesn’t really know what she’s doing, but she loves books and hopes that will be enough. Her mother, Fern, is an internationally renowned artist going through her own personal drama. Joy Blackwood, an American by way of Paris, shows up at the bookshop hoping for a quick visit but instead leaves as Robyn’s first (volunteer) employee.

Apr 2, 2024 | asianimage.co.uk | Sairish Hussain

2 1/2 MY SECOND novel, Hidden Fires, is an unlikely friendship story between two unlikely protagonists. Characters like Yusuf, an elderly Asian man, widowed and living alone in Bradford, are not often seen in the pages of a book. The same can also be said of Rubi, a biracial, 16-year-old teenager from Manchester who is obsessed with 80s music. There is something that connects the two of them, though at the start of the book, it is a superficial bond only in name.

Apr 2, 2024 | thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Sairish Hussain

MY SECOND novel, Hidden Fires, is an unlikely friendship story between two unlikely protagonists. Characters like Yusuf, an elderly Asian man, widowed and living alone in Bradford, are not often seen in the pages of a book. The same can also be said of Rubi, a biracial, 16-year-old teenager from Manchester who is obsessed with 80s music. There is something that connects the two of them, though at the start of the book, it is a superficial bond only in name.

Jan 17, 2024 | waterstones.com | Sairish Hussain |Surjit Parekh

Praise for Sairish Hussain’s The Family TreeSHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS’ CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF CALIBRE AUDIO’S ‘HIDDEN GEM’ AWARDHow can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past? Ramadan, 2017. Yusuf wakes up in the middle of the night to pray. His routine is always the same, but something tells him that tonight is different.