We're delighted to announce novelist Sarvat Hasin in conversation with Rachel Ashenden at Rare Birds, Edinburgh, to discuss her new novel STRANGE GIRLS.
STRANGE GIRLS is a stunning novel about creativity, longing, and all the words left unsaid. What happens to a love story that has nowhere to go, and who has the right to tell it?
Link to book in bio.
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A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. Aliya has everything Ava wants – a room of her own and a publishing deal – and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend’s hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of their shared history and what they meant to each other.
Aliya and Ava first met in the halls of their historic campus with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Their connection was electric. They created a world of their own through the stories they wrote, influencing and borrowing from each other work. But when the end of university loomed, the real world began to pull them in opposite directions. Was their bond ever truly as strong as they thought? And what would become of the stories they told themselves about each other?
Weaving together their past and present, Strange Girls is an ingenious exploration of the ties forged in the intensity of youth, and the scars left when they break.
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Sarvat Hasin is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was published by Penguin India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book You Can’t Go Home Again was published in 2018 and featured in Vogue India’s and The Hindu’s best of the year lists. Her third novel The Giant Dark (Dialogue Books, Hachette UK) won the Mo Siewcharran Prize and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. She lives in London.
Rachel Ashenden is a writer and editor based in Edinburgh, with bylines in ArtReview, Plaster, The List and others. She is the Art Editor of The Skinny and a Commissioning Editor for Art UK. @rachel.ashenden
UK Cover Reveal for A QUEEN CROWNED IN FLAMES 🖤🔥 the final installment of the 'Fire&Flames' duology in the wider 'Bonded to Beasts' series!
From the ashes, Aemyra must emerge a new kind of queen, but will she be the dawn for her people or the fire that burns everything to the ground?
Publishing May 26th 2026 - Pre Orders are open everywhere and signed copies are available from select stores (link in bio)
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I’m so honoured to be among the first to reveal the ✨stunning✨ cover of Dominion by @jeankwokauthor , a romantasy coming out Summer 2026!
Calling it now - this book is going to be EVERYWHERE. I was lucky enough to get a special early bound manuscript, and it is fantastic so far!
Think Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games with Chinese mythology, where a young woman with no memory and little magic might be the key to uniting four rival Dominions and saving mortals. It has trials, mages, and a swoon-worthy warrior love interest. SIGN ME UP!
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Your favorite shadow daddy & freckled florist are heading to the UK 🇬🇧🖤🌸
I am delighted to share the UK cover of DEARLY DEPARTED! It’s a tad more vibrant & really leans into Levi dragging Hayden straight into the sunlight & truly living life in full bloom!
My team over at @dialoguepublishing & @arcadia_books & I are so excited to have this into the hands of my UK readers!!
DEARLY DEPARTED is publishing June 16 in the UK & available to request on NetGalley NOW!
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And the reviews are starting to come in! I’ve been blown away by the responses I’ve been getting to Slay! Thank you @thehistoryguy for your words- I’ll take the Slay Queen title!
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One lost love. One last party. One final chance to change the end.
It’s 2067 at Palm Meridian Retirement Resort, Florida, and the last day of Hannah’s life. Tomorrow, as the sun burns the dew off the lawns, she’ll close her eyes for the very last time.
Brimming with heart, and just as hilarious as it’s heartbreaking, PALM MERIDIAN is a one-of-a-kind novel that will stay with you forever.
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At night, the garden comes alive...
THE MANOR OF DREAMS is here and we're so excited for you to sink into this lush gothic page turner. Think Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo with Chinese-American identity and a sapphic twist at it's heart.
Like you needed any more convincing, Chloe Gong called it 'beautiful, eerie, and woven with enough intrigue to hold all who enter captive' - and in Chloe Gong we trust!
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The Manor of Dreams is out today in paperback!
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‘A true modern classic’ Chloe Gong
Vivian Yin is dead. The trailblazing starlet was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar - but at what should have been the peak of her career, she became a recluse. The rest of her life was shrouded in mystery...
Now, her daughters gather for the reading of her will. They expect to inherit their childhood home: a grand Southern California manor house with a sprawling, labyrinthine garden. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead. The two families haven’t seen each other for decades - not since the tragedy that fractured all of their lives.
Vying for the estate, both families move into the crumbling, vine-covered manor. As Vivian’s daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother’s life, they soon discover they are being haunted by something far more sinister and vengeful than just their memories.
After so many years of silence, will the families finally confront the truth behind the house’s origins and the last, tragic summer they spent there? Or will the manor of dreams - and its deadly secrets - finally lay claim to its owners?
‘Richly imagined... Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic ought to take note of this beautiful and haunting novel’ Publishers Weekly
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4 weeks until UK publication date! Thank you Alex Hay for your gorgeous words. If you haven’t read The Housekeepers or The Queen of Fives you are in for a giant treat. Alex is the master of the heist, his books are both unputdownable and rich with glittering detail and intriguing characters. A little bird told me there’s a new one on the way too!
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