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Here’s a fantastic promotional price to celebrate the publication of our anthology May We Borrow Your Country. Get your hands on the ebook for £1.99 on the Linen Press website between the 20 – 27th of January and for £2.99 on Amazon between the 24 – 27th January.

Members of The Whole Kahani read from May We Borrow Your Country at the Durham Book Festival. They were interviewed by Anna Begley who spoke to them about writing both as South Asians and as women.

It was was exciting that May We Borrow Your Country was shortlisted for ‘Best Anthology’ by the Saboteur Awards. We had a fabulous time at the awards ceremony. Here are a few pictures. Thank you to everyone who voted for us!

May We Borrow Your Country, The Whole Kahani’s new anthology, published by Linen Press, launched at Waterstones, Gower Street, to a packed audience.

Authors read their pieces to laughs and sighs. Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young and winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2108, along with publisher Lynn Michell led a thought provoking panel discussion and finally opened it up to the audience to fire away their questions.

The launch for May We Borrow Your Country took place on the 26th of January, 2019 at Waterstones, Gower Street.
Preti Taneja, winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize, 2018, who has written the foreword for the book, introduced The Whole Kahani. Contributors read brief excerpts from the book and publisher Lynn Michell of Linen Press described what attracted her to the anthology. This was followed by a short panel discussion on the representation of minority voices in literature, after which we opened to Q&A from the audience, and book signing.
It was a truly lively evening with wine and samosas!

The Whole Kahani members are going from prize to prize! Mona Dash has just been shortlisted for the prestigious SI Leeds Prize. It awards unpublished fiction by UK-based Black and Asian women. Good luck, Mona!

​You can hear Mona read from her work with the shortlisted writers at South Bank on the 23rd of October.

The Whole Kahani members are flying high. Kavita A. Jindal has been shortlisted for The Impress Prize 2018 for the manuscript of her debut novel. The Prize is offered by Impress Books to new writers of book-length fiction or non-fiction.

We’re delighted to announce our next anthology: May We Borrow Your Country is going to be out soon!

May We Borrow Your Country is a collection of stories and poems that looks at dislocation and displacement with sympathy, tolerance and humour. These pieces are peopled by courageous, poignant, eccentric individuals who cross borders, accommodate to new cultures and try to establish an identity in a new place. In the process, they encounter different versions of themselves, like reflections in a room of trick mirrors.

They are evocative and multi-layered in their portrayal of relationships, family, ambition, careers and friendship. They offer a fresh, contemporary look at metamorphosis and many catch that fleeting moment of transition between the familiar and the new.

The collection has found its home with the wonderful Linen Press. Look out for it in January 2019.