Stories by Nadya Chishty-Mujahid

Review: Nita Prose's The Maid's Secret is a fun read that fails to make a major character feel real

While the parts focusing on the protagonist are enjoyable, the ones dedicated to her grandmother are not.

Published 07 Nov, 2026 10:13am

FICTION: MAID IN HEAVEN

The third part of a trilogy revisits the main protagonist hotel maid and her beloved late grandmother who trained her

Published 01 Nov, 2026 06:29am

Review: Ava Reid's Innamorata is a mixture of grotesque horror and surprisingly plausible romance

A richly imagined gothic fantasy novel blends necromancy, court intrigue, forbidden love and visceral violence into an unsettling tale.

Published 06 Aug, 2026 11:40am

FICTION: BEAUTY AND THE BLOOD

A richly imagined gothic fantasy novel blends necromancy, court intrigue, forbidden love and visceral violence into an unsettling

Published 02 Aug, 2026 07:18am

FICTION: CLEOPATRA REIMAGINED

A fresh retelling of the legendary Egyptian pharaoh’s life recasts her as a healer, strategist and fiercely devoted mother rather

Published 28 Jun, 2026 07:05am

Review: Could the pathos and sweetness in novella Something Might Fall make it a work of genius?

What happens when a 1970s NYC upper-class wife and mother finds herself suffocated by the demands of social performance?

Published 17 Jun, 2026 02:26pm

FICTION: All that glitters

An upper-class New York wife and mother in the 1970s finds herself suffocated by the demands of social performance

Published 14 Jun, 2026 05:55am

NON-FICTION: HOUSE OF GRIFTERS?

An unauthorised biography of the former Duke and Duchess of York attempts a sweeping exposé of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Published 17 May, 2026 08:09am

Review: RF Kuang's Katabasis suffers from self-indulgence and is no 'modern classic'

The writer's experiences in academia go a step too far in influencing her narrative.

Published 06 May, 2026 06:09pm

FICTION: DESCENT INTO HELL

After an academic adviser is blown up in a magical experiment, two of his students make a perilous journey to the underworld to

Published 03 May, 2026 08:57am

Review: In Philippa Gregory’s new novel, is Jane Boleyn a traitor or survivor?

She revisits the Tudor court in Boleyn Traitor through Jane Boleyn, a woman who survived longer than most in King Henry VIII’s treacherous world.

Published 09 Apr, 2026 01:58pm

FICTION: TRAITOR OR SURVIVOR?

Philippa Gregory revisits the Tudor court through Jane Boleyn, a woman who survived longer than most in King Henry VIII’s...

Published 05 Apr, 2026 09:23am

NON-FICTION: BLAME IT ON BASHIR

A former journalist’s book on Princess Diana’s infamous 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir expects readers to consider...

Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:45am

Ayesha Muzaffar’s The Haunting of Dr Rahim-ud-Din Shamsi and Other Unsettling Tales will delight horror fans

Her prose is simple and crisp, and the rapid and engrossing pace of her writing in this riveting collection of novellas is impressive.

Published 18 Feb, 2026 12:11pm

FICTION: DEMONIC POSSESSIONS

Ayesha Muzaffar’s latest offering strings together three novellas that will undoubtedly delight fans of the horror genre

Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:33am

A mummy, a missing girl, and Karachi: Why Maha Khan Phillips’ The Museum Detective is such a gripping read

The author's fast-paced third novel is both historical fiction and a thrilling murder mystery.

Published 23 Jan, 2026 12:34pm

FICTION: The real thing

Maha Khan Phillips’ fast-paced third novel is both historical fiction as well as a thrilling murder mystery and cements her

Updated 22 Jan, 2026 06:22pm

Review: Death on the Lusitania is a murder mystery with an edge over Agatha Christie

The book is set on an ill-fated ocean liner during World War I.

Published 09 Jan, 2026 03:14pm

FICTION: MURDER AND HISTORY ON THE WAVES

A historical novel about murder, set at the time of WWI on board a British ocean liner eventually sunk by a German submarine

Updated 04 Jan, 2026 07:22am

FICTION: SAVING THE MANUSCRIPT

Symbols, mystery and thrills — Dan Brown’s latest novel has two academics and lovers encountering all kinds of trouble as they run

Published 02 Nov, 2025 09:29am