Resources
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Press
Hate thy neighbour: why crime fiction is obsessed with suburbia
The Telegraph, Jan 2024
On-trend mysteries and thrillers for you to read
Goodreads, Jan 2024
Ep36: Kia Abdullah
The Conversation Podcast, Oct 2023
5 new paperbacks to read this week, print version
The New York Times, Sep 2023
Perfectly Nice Neighbors review
Publishers Weekly, Sep 2023
Perfectly Nice Neighbors review
Kirkus, Sep 2023
Top 10 fiction chosen monthly by America’s library staff
LibraryReads, Sep 2023
The most anticipated thriller books of fall 2023
Paste Magazine, Sep 2023
Perfectly Nice Neighbors review
Manhattan Book Review, Sep 2023
Q&A with Kia Abdullah
Aardvark Book Club, Sep 2023
Q&A: Kia Abdullah
September fiction releases
Nerd Daily, Sep 2023
17 new thrillers for September
Catching up on our backlist TBRs
9 headline-inspired book recommendations
Book Riot, Sep 2023
The best books this week
Shelf Awareness, Sep 2023
S6 Ep7: Kia Abdullah
Novel Experience Podcast, Aug 2023
Kia Abdullah on fiction as revenge
Shots Mag, Aug 2023
Breaking into cliquey crime fiction
BookBrunch, Aug 2023
Unsettling books to get you in the mood for spooky season
Scary Mommy, Aug 2023
Kia Abdullah’s top 5 suburban thrillers
Waterstones, Jul 2023
28 new fall books to put at the top of your reading list for 2023
Country Living, Jul 2023
Newham’s novelist and amateur boxer
The Forest Mag, Jun 2023
Page-turning mysteries and thrillers that will keep you up all night
We Are Bookish, Jun 2023
12 crime novels that offer more than a body count
National Book Tokens, Jun 2023
In conversation with crime novelist Kia Abdullah
UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, Jun 2023
The best new thrillers for January 2023
The Times, Jan 2023
The best recent crime and thrillers
The Guardian, Jan 2023
Neighbours and murderers
Oh My Lit Podcast, Jan 2023
8 British authors to put on your TBR this year, print version
Country and Town House magazine, Jan 2023
Kia Abdullah chooses six things that should be better known
Better Known Podcast, Jan 2023
This month’s best new reads
Prima magazine, Jan 2023
Crime round-up
Literary Review, Dec 2023
Kia Abdullah in conversation
The Bookseller, Nov 2022
8 most anticipated books of 2023 by British Asian authors
DESIblitz, Nov 2022
Dean, Bowen and Abdullah crowned winners at Diverse Book Awards
The Bookseller, Oct 2022
Murder, They Wrote
Air Mail, Oct 2022
The childless female villain: trope or technique?
CrimeReads, Sep 2022
Book 101
The Times and Sunday Times Crime Club, Aug 2022
The joy of crime fiction: authors from Lee Child to Paula Hawkins pick their favourite books
The Guardian, Jul 2022
Longlists revealed for Diverse Book Awards
The Bookseller, Jul 2022
The Muslim women who are transforming crime fiction
The i paper, Jul 2022
Heatseekers Fiction Top 10, print version
The Bookseller, May 2022
Top 10 novels of 2021
Eastern Eye, Dec 2021
Episode 155: Kia Abdullah (from 6m)
The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast, Nov 2021
Stars of the British-Asian Crime (Writing) Wave
Daily Express, Nov 2021
Episode 27: Kia Abdullah
Northern Crime Syndicate Podcast, Oct 2021
Kia Abdullah in Person With Paul
Crime Time FM Podcast, Oct 2021
The best new thrillers for September 2021, print version
The Times, Sep 2021
Reasonable doubt
The Author, Sep 2021
The irresistible menace of the East End
The Times and Sunday Times Crime Club, Sep 2021
My Yorkshire Weekend: Kia Abdullah (live edition)
Yorkshire Life magazine, Sep 2021
5 new books to read this week
The Independent, Sep 2021
Next of Kin radio review (from 48m)
The Alfred Daily, Sep 2021
The Reading Room
Living Magazine, Sep 2021
Kia Abdullah on The Writing Community Chat Show
WCCS, Sep 2021
New Must Reads
Bella Magazine, Sep 2021
New Beginnings (episode page)
BBC Radio London, Sep 2021
EP332: Kia Abdullah — Don’t Shy Away (from 19m)
The Bestseller Experiment Podcast, Aug 2021
TV report on Next of Kin
BBC Look North, Aug 2021
Episode 123 (from 42m)
Quick Book Reviews Podcast, Aug 2021
Adele Parks Book Club
Platinum Magazine, Aug 2021
Meet the author: courtroom thriller writer Kia Abdullah
Northern Echo, Aug 2021
Diverse Book Awards longlist
The Bookseller, Jul 2021
Crime writer Abdullah to donate pre-order profits to Trussell Trust
The Bookseller, Jun 2021
Big debate: free school meals (episode page)
BBC Asian Network radio, Jun 2021
Scott Makin show
BBC Radio Tees radio, Jun 2021
Farzana Chaudry show
BBC Three Counties radio, Jun 2021
Author to donate profits of pre-orders of her novel to food bank
The Northern Echo and Darlington & Stockton Times, Jun 2021
Need to read: A preview of forthcoming books by terrifically talented authors
Eastern Eye, Jun 2021
Fantasy home: an escape to nature inspired by Anne of Green Gables
The Financial Times, Apr 2021
Celebrating the Bengali language
BBC Asian Network radio, Apr 2021
Paperbacks of the week
The Times and Sunday Times Crime Club, Mar 2021
Saima Mir on her favourite books featuring South-Asian women
Waterstones, Feb 2021
Buying a house with a white man taught me about privilege, print version
The i paper, Feb 2021
Murder, Murder Everywhere
The New York Times, Jan 2021
Crime by committee: 8 novels featuring group misdeeds
CrimeReads, Dec 2020
5 books not to miss, print version
USA Today, Dec 2020
10 novels you should read this December
CrimeReads, Dec 2020
What should I read next?
Real Simple Magazine, Dec 2020
Tip Sheet: what to read next
Publishers Weekly, Dec 2020
Top 10 books published this month that library staff across the country love
LibraryReads, Dec 2020
Amazon editors’ picks: best mystery, thriller & suspense, pdf
Amazon US, Dec 2020
Murder, They Wrote
Air Mail, Dec 2020
December’s best new books
Scribd, Dec 2020
17 most anticipated book releases for December 2020
The Tempest, Dec 2020
What great authors read and bookmarked for life
Eastern Eye, Dec 2020
Episode 80 – Kia Abdullah (from 4m)
Quick Book Reviews Podcast, Nov 2020
This thing’s incredible
The Strategist, New York Magazine, Nov 2020
Publisher’s Weekly gift guide, print version
Publisher’s Weekly, Oct 2020
Crime round-up
Literary Review, Oct 2020
Five new books to read this week
Scottish Herald (syndicated nationally), Oct 2020
Off the shelf: Male bravado
Big Issue North, Oct 2020
Interview with Kia Abdullah
Creative Minds, Oct 2020
New books
The Irish News, Sep 2020
The week’s hot new reads
Heat, Sep 2020
75 of the best new books for autumn, print version
The i paper, Sep 2020
Book Club with Nicola Smith
Daily Record, Sep 2020
Once, twice, three times a writer panel
SlaughterFest, Sep 2020
Who are the victims?
The Northern Echo, Sep 2020
Take It Back: starred review, print version
Publishers Weekly, Aug 2020
My journey from Tower Hamlets to the Dales, pdf
Living Magazine (North East), Aug 2020
Escape to the Dales
The Northern Echo, Aug 2020
Fiction pick
Sunday Post, Aug 2020
Crime author book signing in Richmond, print version
The Northern Echo, Aug 2020
10 questions with Kia Abdullah
Instagram Live, Aug 2020
Featured profile
Bengalis of New York, Aug 2020
Crime author’s new book signing
Darlington & Stockton Times, Aug 2020
Richmond author to sign copies of new book
Richmondshire Today, Aug 2020
12 must-read mysteries and thrillers coming this fall
Amazon US, Jul 2020
Times column, print version
The Times, Jul 2020
It is possible to be a secular Muslim
The i paper, Jul 2020
Well worth investigating
Sunday Express, Jun 2020
In conversation with Kia Abdullah
Pen To Print, Jun 2020
Alumni profile – Kia Abdullah
QMUL, May 2020
Big Book Weekend: Kia Abdullah and Abir Mukherjee (click ‘Past Interviews/Festivals’ or watch preview)
Big Book Weekend, May 2020
Facebook Live: Take It Back with Kia Abdullah
HQ Book Club, Apr 2020
The tricky art of writing women with Kia Abdullah
HQ Stories, Apr 2020
Book clinic: Can you recommend a replacement for Rumpole of the Bailey?
The Guardian, Mar 2020
Presenting a bold new voice in fiction, the searing Take It Back by Kia Abdullah
Foyles, Mar 2020
Episode 17 – Kia Abdullah (from 22m)
Red Hot Chilli Writers Podcast, Mar 2020
10 more questions with Kia Abdullah
Instagram Live, Mar 2020
Asian Booklist: my response to the exhausting diversity debate
The Bookseller, Mar 2020
Take It Back
The Sunday Post, Mar 2020
The 31 best thrillers and crime novels of 2019
The Telegraph, Dec 2019
Best crime and thrillers of 2019, print version
The Guardian, Nov 2019
Here’s what happened when my friend got rich
Fashion Magazine, Nov 2019
Insider look at Tower Hamlets
London Planner, Nov 2019
On the Shelf
Daily Mercury, Oct 2019
Book review (from 41m)
The Desi Woman Podcast, Oct 2019
Review of Take It Back by Kia Abdullah
Asian Review of Books, Oct 2019
Interview with Kia Abdullah
The New Arab, Oct 2019
Author interview
Freedom blog, Oct 2019
Arrivals
Toronto Star, Sep 2019
Inspired by Anne
Montreal Gazette, Sep 2019
Author interview
The Crime Warp, Sep 2019
Binge-worthy books
Savvy Reader, Sep 2019
10 thrillers with an ending you won’t predict
Betches, Sep 2019
Lessons learned from 60 countries of travel
Ms Career Girl, Sep 2019
The best new thrillers, September 2019, print version
The Sunday Times, Sep 2019
Five books that’ll take you to new neighbourhoods
Toronto Star, Sep 2019
17 books out this August to add to your end-of-summer reading list
Her, Aug 2019
Telegraph review
The Telegraph, Aug 2019
The best recent crime and thrillers
The Guardian, Aug 2019
Top 5 British legal thrillers
The Big Issue, Aug 2019
32 works of fiction from around the world to watch for this fall
CBC Canada, Aug 2019
Interview with Kia Abdullah
BBC York, Aug 2019
Why I agreed to marry a man I’d only met once
Telegraph Magazine, Aug 2019
Five things I learned writing Take It Back
Chuck Wendig, Aug 2019
Interview with Kia Abdullah
Talk Radio, Aug 2019
Interview with Kia Abdullah
BBC Asian Network radio, Aug 2019
10 Things I’d like my readers to know about me by Kia Abdullah
Female First, Aug 2019
HQ teams with reading app The Pigeonhole on ‘industry first’ serialisation
The Bookseller, Jul 2019
Interview with Kia Abdullah
Christina McDonald, Jul 2019
The 14 best books to read in summer 2019
Now Toronto, Jun 2019
10 questions with Kia Abdullah
Instagram Live, May 2019
What I needed as a working-class writer
The Bookseller, May 2019
Author and travel writer relocates to Richmond
Richmondshire Today, Apr 2019
Books to read in 2019
The Asian Writer, Jan 2019
HQ signs ‘thrilling’ Abdullah courtroom drama
The Bookseller, Dec 2018