Farah is a lawyer living and working in London. She's just ended a long relationship, and her parents are looking for a husband - whether Farah wants one or not. So far, so normal. But at a work dinner, hosted by a dangerously powerful man, she comes across a young woman called Razia, who Farah soon realises is being kept as a domestic slave.
Farah travels from the law courts of London to the brick kilns of Lahore, and there she begins to uncover the traps that keep generations of people enslaved. Everywhere she turns there is deep-rooted oppression and corruption. She teams up with a human rights lawyer Ali to seek justice for Razia, but they cannot prevent the disaster that unfolds.
Will Farah discover the explosive secret behind these tragic events?

"Razia is an excellent choice of book for anyone who wants to know more about the issue of modern-day slavery. It provides an insight into the issue with an entertaining read of drama and unexpected romance. Filled with characters you will love and characters you will hate, the book is a real page-turner."             -Desi Blitz

"This is a novel that deserves a wide readership and I hope it gets it."                                                                                              - NB Magazine

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Selina, a beautiful, British-born Pakistani young woman recently lost her father, and finds herself struggling to cope with life, in particular with some aspects of her studies. Matters go from bad to worse, when a trusted family friend from the mosque offers to tutor her, and rapes her instead. With the threat of dishonour to her family at her back, Selina goes to extreme lengths to avoid scandal, and prevent shame being brought to her widowed mother's door. It will take all the strength and courage Selina can muster when her life travels down a dangerous path, from which there may be no return...

"Khan has written a contemporary Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a heart-wrenching and engrossing tale that challenges the definition of morality through the story of a wronged young woman fighting to come to terms with harsh realities and finding empowerment along the way."
-Booklist, USA

Through the compelling plot and carefully structured narrative, Khan gives voice to women whose stories are rarely heard and raises a series of complex and challenging cultural, social and moral questions."
-Yorkshire Post

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Tappay Tales

Tappay Tales was all about traditional Pakistani folk/wedding songs which were used as inspiration for new creative work produced by the participants of the project, new (commissioned) poetry and a script 'Rani Aur Amee' written by me culminating in three showcase performances in July 2022 in Birmingham, followed by a film and a book. Tappay Tales 2 travelled to Bradford and Liverpool in 2023 and the workshops focused on how the old heritage has now merged with the participants' new British South Asian cultural identity. The project culminated in live performances with an extended play 'Rani aur Amee 1943/2023' which had an additional scene to reflect the changes in the mother/daughter relationship from 1940's rural Punjab to modern Britain.

Bradford Food Stories

In 2022 I worked with Bradford poet Sharena Lee Satti and explored Bradford's rich and diverse food culture and heritage through creative writing workshops, focusing not only on the food itself, but many other issues such as migration, social changes, environmental impact, food legacy, family recipes, all of which will culminated in a fabulous showcase event in December at Bradford Town Hall.

Sidelines to Centre Stage (2019) was a showcase of creative writing produced by female survivors of abuse, trauma, and incarceration. I worked with women at Birmingham and Solihull Women's Aid refuges, and with women assisted by the Muslim Women in Prison Project in Bradford. Through a series of creative writing workshops, the women produced work that brought to life their wide-ranging experiences; domestic violence, 'honour' abuse, FGM, homelessness, love, loss, hope, and much more. These moving stories and poems were then performed by actors on stage by way of rehearsed readings at various community settings in Birmingham and Bradford, in addition to public performances at Midland Arts Centre Birmingham and Bradford Literature Festival. There is also a short video which you can watch here.

This project was funded by Arts Council England and The National Lottery and supported by Sampad.

Commission for 'Allegory of War'

I was commissioned by Sampad South Asian Arts and Heritage to write a powerful spoken word piece relating to Adeela Suleman's exhibition 'Allegory of War' at Midlands Arts Centre. My spoken word reflected the essence of Adeela Suleman's work which explores social and political issues, particularly the violence experienced in her home city of Karachi in Pakistan. I performed my work in collaboration with a dancer whose movements accompanied the prose at the exhibition launch event and subsequent 'Chai & Chat' discussion (2022)

Commission for 'Threaded Together'

'Threaded Together' is a short film directed by Sima Gonsai and Bhulla Beghal that captures the lived experiences of South Asian women in Blackburn through the decades. I was commissioned to write a spoken word piece to feature in the film, inspired by the oral histories of the women who participated in the project. I was also commissioned to do the voice over for the film reading an edited version of the poem. Find out more here NOMINATED FOR ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY MIDLANDS AWARD

Jumping the Middings

This was a creative writing project (funded by Bradford Council) which I worked on alongside poet Sharena Lee Satti in which we delivered online workshops to participants exploring their memories of childhood in Bradford the 1970's (inspired by my own memories of jumping the middings - also referred to as middens - which were the old coal sheds at the back the terraced properties). We had a very successful online sharing event in November 2021, and a spectacular live physical event at Kala Sangam, Bradford in January 2022.

Commission for Tribe Talks Partition @75

My script was one of the stage plays that featured in a live show delving into the complete, joined up story of the Partition, from the colonial expansion of the Empire, the early uprisings, the culmination of Partition itself, the freedom fighters' who were integral in achieving independence, and the fallout of migrations to the UK that followed - asking, what is the legacy of Partition from a British Asian perspective? NOMINATED FOR ASIAN MEDIA AWARD

100 Voices My poetry is featured in 100 Voices  which is a collection of stories by women writers all about finding their voice.

This powerful collection of true stories features moving, comic and inspiring accounts by female identifying writers from around the United Kingdom.

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Coronation Kitchen

I co-created and co-delivered (along with writer Mandy Ross) this project funded by Arts Council England and was part of the celebrations for the late Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee. Through creative writing & poetry workshops (held online), a group of female participants from various faiths and backgrounds from all around the U.K. took part and explored their own stories of food and how these link to things such as their childhood, upbringing, ·their family history and heritage, family events, ·celebrations, culture, religion, and what role these dishes now play in current British communities. Once the work was edited & finalised, there was a hybrid event to celebrate the project, with women joining in person in London, and online via Zoom.

5 Stories The West Midlands Readers' Network links authors with reading groups to facilitate new writing. I was paired with a reading club and commissioned to write a short story. After discussions with the group, and bearing in mind the wish-list of themes and ideas the group wanted to see in the completed work, I produced a bespoke short story, which was published in an anthology that was shared with with the group and the wider reading public.