“three boyz drive & dream of an impossible night on an endless street” 🚗💨
Late last year, we pulled up in the cold and shot something special 📸
Wet tarmac. Camera shutters clicking. Now we can finally show you…
WIMMY ROAD BOYZ by Sufiyaan Salam!
A white bimmer hurtles down manchester’s curry mile, carrying three brown boys in pursuit of a wild night out, oi oi oi!
And look, what the boys don’t know: this night might just be their last. . .
⭐ ‘Riotous… raucous, wildly inventive’ — THE OBSERVER
⭐ ‘An energetic livewire masterpiece’ — NIKESH SHUKLA
⭐ ‘A landmark debut… Salam’s prose flows with wit and feeling.’ — NICOLA DINAN
⭐ ‘Freewheeling, risk-taking… one hell of a ride’ — GURNAIK JOHAL
⭐ ‘Compulsive, raw and searingly honest.’ — NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
Winner of the #MerkyBooks New Writers Prize and BAFTA-nominated, Sufiyaan Salam is an utterly original voice.
Strap in.
Out this May. Hit the link in our bio to pre-order your copy now 🔗
🚨 WIMMY ROAD BOYZ DROPS IN A MONTH 🚨
winner of the @merkybooks new writers prize, written by an @theobserveruk best debut novelist (& @bafta nominee)
the book follows three boyz driving up & down the curry mile on a madness
they're calling it a MASTERPIECE + a LANDMARK DEBUT + a POLYPHONIC NARRATIVE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS
YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET ON IT 🚗🚗🚗💨💨💨
( PRE ORDER LINK IN MY BIO )
@bafta weekend kicked off last night with the inaugural Celebrating South Asians event by @_productofculture_@society_o_ hosted by @dr_parvindershergill@sukkimenon
Team #MZ stepped out out in full force, representing one of three South Asian bafta nominated titles at this years awards.
Before the film, there was the script, and before the script, were the countless conversations, calls, notes and outlining sessions.
Explore the writing process of BAFTA-nominated & BIFA-winning MAGID / ZAFAR through the @sufiyaansalam script journals, kept throughout 2023, from the first conversation to the final draft.
