Areen Ali

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Delighted to announce the launch of our rebranded non-fiction imprint, Tallis Street Books. An exciting new chapter for a list with brilliant books and authors. thebookseller.com/news/headline-…

Delighted to share that my short fiction “pigeons on my windowsill” is now published in @afreada, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Big thanks to Nancy and Chideraa for the amazing collaboration towards this publication. 🐦‍⬛🖤🪴 afreada.com/short-stories/…

bipoc female rage historical fantasy/speculative books with themes of colonisation and national independence !

Geoffrey Bawa turned an abandoned horse stable into one of the most studied residential conversions in Asian architecture. This is how. The Horagolla House began as an abandoned horse stable on a family property. Bawa visited the site, stood and studied it, then agreed to convert it. Over four years in the 1980s, he remodelled the stables with restraint into a double height living space. The stable hall became the living room. Verandas looked out over garden courts. Trees were planted around the perimeter on Bawa’s advice, Hora, Kotang and Kohombo. Burma teak sourced from old houses across the island. Clay pots. A salvaged Dutch door that Sunethra and Bawa famously competed over at the same antique dealer. Bawa rejected the imposition of preconceived forms onto a site. Every project began with the land; its trees, its light and its climate. The building followed. That philosophy produced homes that feel inevitable rather than imposed. He is widely regarded as the father of tropical modernism in Sri Lanka and the Horagolla House is one of the clearest examples of why. Horagolla House, Sri Lanka. Geoffrey Bawa. 📷 Ashish Sahi

📚 Bookshops, publishers: indies rule. "Of the 48 publishing imprints that submitted books for the 2016 prize, 37 of them were independents." thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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RIP Peter Aldington, whose Turn End is a lovely example of perhaps my favourite architectural style — Kettle’s Yard Modernism.

🦊Den is coming from Wildfire April 2026! 🦊 Expect animals acting weird, dealing with family and grief - all told in gorgeous, luminous prose!

It’s official!!! I’m gonna be a published author!! Words cannot describe how grateful I have felt these last few months, this is an absolute dream come true ❤️ Skeeter Pete 🐕🐶 is gonna steal your hearts (unless you’re a cat person 🤭)

the thing is, to make art, to fall in love, to do anything really worth doing, you have to risk embarrassment, humiliation, heartbreak. to do anything you have to risk being. and that's being in front of—or more scary, with—others.

“I Believed I Would Never Catch Up”: Bestselling Author Tayari Jones Reveals The Strange Magic Behind Her Literary Stardom - British Vogue bit.ly/2zsTTA0

🌞 COVER REVEAL 🌙 I’m so excited to share the US limited edition & UK paperback for my Ghibli-inspired YA fantasy debut BLOOD OF SILVER. It features a Viet anti-hero and a flamboyant blonde prince 👑👀🌟 Illustrated by the talented Viet artist @/hoanglapdoan (Instagram) 🇻🇳

Want to read my querying journey? Here are all the details and the query letter that landed me my agent! ✨

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. wired.com/story/the-inte…

So recommended. This novel This is Where the Serpent Lives is brilliant…. Its v original but it also does resemble a sort of Pakistani Chekhov I m still in the middle. But its a pleasure to read.

I had a very thought-provoking time interviewing Amia Srinivasan, who is fast becoming our pre-eminent public philosopher, on the @NewStatesman's longform interviews podcast, The Exchange. Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/013vvk… Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ami…

The superpower has lost control of its foreign policy, writes Badr Albusaidi, Oman’s chief diplomat economist.com/by-invitation/…

So excited to be publishing this brilliant book and author 👑