The Things I Would Tell You : British Muslim Women Write – Sabrina Mahfouz

Selected as Emma Watson’s Jan/Feb 2019 pick for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf
Shortlisted for London’s Big Read
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
Longlisted for The People’s Book Prize

From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the ‘Muslim Woman’.

Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6. Follow the career of an actress with Middle-Eastern heritage whose dreams of playing a ghostbuster spiral into repeat castings as a jihadi bride. Among stories of honour killings and ill-fated love in besieged locations, we also find heart-warming connections and powerful challenges to the status quo.

From Algiers to Brighton, these stories transcend time and place revealing just how varied the search for belonging can be.