Tawseef Khan
@tawseefkhan.bsky.social
Writer & Immigration Solicitor
Buy Determination: https://www.waterstones.com/book/determination/tawseef-khan/9781804442326
Buy Muslim, Actually: How We Get Islam Wrong and Why It Matters - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/muslim-actually/
Buy Determination: https://www.waterstones.com/book/determination/tawseef-khan/9781804442326
Buy Muslim, Actually: How We Get Islam Wrong and Why It Matters - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/muslim-actually/
Just posted my second newsletter over at the place beginning with ‘S’. It’s about Pride month and reading lists, and the kinds of books and authors they end up excluding. Ignore the fuzzy picture, it’s a good read! 🥰
July 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Just posted my second newsletter over at the place beginning with ‘S’. It’s about Pride month and reading lists, and the kinds of books and authors they end up excluding. Ignore the fuzzy picture, it’s a good read! 🥰
Published my first newsletter today, over at the place beginning with ‘S’. 👀 It’s about getting over my shyness and discomfort with sharing personal things on social media. Can be found under my government name! (Or reply and I’ll send you the link!)
June 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Published my first newsletter today, over at the place beginning with ‘S’. 👀 It’s about getting over my shyness and discomfort with sharing personal things on social media. Can be found under my government name! (Or reply and I’ll send you the link!)
Yes please! It’s paperback publication day for me. My novel Determination is about an overworked immigration solicitor, and her refugee clients.
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June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Yes please! It’s paperback publication day for me. My novel Determination is about an overworked immigration solicitor, and her refugee clients.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dete...
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Happy publication day to me!!!
June 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Happy publication day to me!!!
Had an EXCELLENT time in Leeds yesterday on the 1st stop of the Determination paperback tour, interviewed by the brilliant @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social
The best thing about library events is that you get ppl attending who might not feel comfortable at a bookshop event - I love reaching them!
The best thing about library events is that you get ppl attending who might not feel comfortable at a bookshop event - I love reaching them!
June 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Had an EXCELLENT time in Leeds yesterday on the 1st stop of the Determination paperback tour, interviewed by the brilliant @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social
The best thing about library events is that you get ppl attending who might not feel comfortable at a bookshop event - I love reaching them!
The best thing about library events is that you get ppl attending who might not feel comfortable at a bookshop event - I love reaching them!
So I’m doing a few events to celebrate the publication of Determination in paperback. Meeting audiences and getting to chat about the book is my absolute favourite part of the author life, so I’d LOVE to see some of you there!
First stop: Leeds! 😍
First stop: Leeds! 😍
June 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So I’m doing a few events to celebrate the publication of Determination in paperback. Meeting audiences and getting to chat about the book is my absolute favourite part of the author life, so I’d LOVE to see some of you there!
First stop: Leeds! 😍
First stop: Leeds! 😍
Hi friends! Are you unsure if my novel is for you? Think the cover is cute, but don't know what it's about? Want to test it out before you grab yourself a paperback?
Well, then listen to me reading from #Determination below - recorded to celebrate its longlisting for the #Jhalak Prize 2025!
Well, then listen to me reading from #Determination below - recorded to celebrate its longlisting for the #Jhalak Prize 2025!
June 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hi friends! Are you unsure if my novel is for you? Think the cover is cute, but don't know what it's about? Want to test it out before you grab yourself a paperback?
Well, then listen to me reading from #Determination below - recorded to celebrate its longlisting for the #Jhalak Prize 2025!
Well, then listen to me reading from #Determination below - recorded to celebrate its longlisting for the #Jhalak Prize 2025!
Didn’t realise that Substack platforms and funds actual NAZIS, so I’m going to have to pivot to an alternative, having spent ALL MORNING setting my profile up! 🤦🏽♀️
June 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Didn’t realise that Substack platforms and funds actual NAZIS, so I’m going to have to pivot to an alternative, having spent ALL MORNING setting my profile up! 🤦🏽♀️
Very excited that the #Determination paperback has made it to @foylesforbooks.bsky.social a few days before our official publication date. And it’s on a table! In such good company!
Get it while it’s hot! 😂💜
Get it while it’s hot! 😂💜
June 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Very excited that the #Determination paperback has made it to @foylesforbooks.bsky.social a few days before our official publication date. And it’s on a table! In such good company!
Get it while it’s hot! 😂💜
Get it while it’s hot! 😂💜
Why is it that the smallest events are often the best? VERY intimate gathering at @Blackwells last night for #JhalakPrize showcase, but @ashley__thorpe and I had a great time. I got compared to Elizabeth Strout & I’m not lying when I say that was a career HIGHLIGHT!!! 💜💜💜
June 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Why is it that the smallest events are often the best? VERY intimate gathering at @Blackwells last night for #JhalakPrize showcase, but @ashley__thorpe and I had a great time. I got compared to Elizabeth Strout & I’m not lying when I say that was a career HIGHLIGHT!!! 💜💜💜
Very happy to get a mention in The Tablet this afternoon - as a ‘standout debut novel’, no less!!!
May 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Very happy to get a mention in The Tablet this afternoon - as a ‘standout debut novel’, no less!!!
Expect me to post about this a lot - out in one month!!!!
May 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Expect me to post about this a lot - out in one month!!!!
Lovely lovely to see Determination in @thebookseller.com’s paperback preview for June - and I’ve scratched it in the house colours 🥰🥰🥰
April 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Lovely lovely to see Determination in @thebookseller.com’s paperback preview for June - and I’ve scratched it in the house colours 🥰🥰🥰
So this crazy thing just happened. My debut novel Determination has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prose Prize 2025, alongside this INCREDIBLE bunch of authors!! Feeling very, very lucky and blessed. But also look at all these amazing books!
March 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
So this crazy thing just happened. My debut novel Determination has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prose Prize 2025, alongside this INCREDIBLE bunch of authors!! Feeling very, very lucky and blessed. But also look at all these amazing books!
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social in his element, at his launch of Broken Biscuits last night. It’s a terrific book, everybody needs to get it!!!
February 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social in his element, at his launch of Broken Biscuits last night. It’s a terrific book, everybody needs to get it!!!
Also, did this the other day and it was GORGEOUS!
Dialect Dinners try to connect rural writers and readers with published authors. They ask authors to bring an imaginary three course meal to a zoom chat, and in between we talk about craft! Absolutely brilliant concept. 💯
Dialect Dinners try to connect rural writers and readers with published authors. They ask authors to bring an imaginary three course meal to a zoom chat, and in between we talk about craft! Absolutely brilliant concept. 💯
February 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Also, did this the other day and it was GORGEOUS!
Dialect Dinners try to connect rural writers and readers with published authors. They ask authors to bring an imaginary three course meal to a zoom chat, and in between we talk about craft! Absolutely brilliant concept. 💯
Dialect Dinners try to connect rural writers and readers with published authors. They ask authors to bring an imaginary three course meal to a zoom chat, and in between we talk about craft! Absolutely brilliant concept. 💯
This was super fun in the end: read from Determination, chatted to one of my great friends about creating characters that spring off the page, then signed a few books! 🥳
February 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This was super fun in the end: read from Determination, chatted to one of my great friends about creating characters that spring off the page, then signed a few books! 🥳
Had a gorgeous night last night celebrating The List of Suspicious Things by watching @jenniegauthor.bsky.social and @adamjfarrer.bsky.social in conversation, with beloveds
@thereadingpara.bsky.social @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social 💜💜💜
@thereadingpara.bsky.social @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social 💜💜💜
January 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Had a gorgeous night last night celebrating The List of Suspicious Things by watching @jenniegauthor.bsky.social and @adamjfarrer.bsky.social in conversation, with beloveds
@thereadingpara.bsky.social @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social 💜💜💜
@thereadingpara.bsky.social @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social 💜💜💜
Could I emerge from a swimming pool as the opening bars of a synth beat play? I’m thinking something like this —->
October 10, 2023 at 12:18 PM
Could I emerge from a swimming pool as the opening bars of a synth beat play? I’m thinking something like this —->
I know it’s late, but here’s my September reading:
- the best of Gaitskill’s essays are amazing, but as a collection, it felt uneven / lacking in direction
- didn’t love a lot of the Saunders stories: too chaotic
- @jenniegauthor.bsky.social has written a marvellous book
- Everett is genius
FIN!
- the best of Gaitskill’s essays are amazing, but as a collection, it felt uneven / lacking in direction
- didn’t love a lot of the Saunders stories: too chaotic
- @jenniegauthor.bsky.social has written a marvellous book
- Everett is genius
FIN!
October 9, 2023 at 4:45 PM
I know it’s late, but here’s my September reading:
- the best of Gaitskill’s essays are amazing, but as a collection, it felt uneven / lacking in direction
- didn’t love a lot of the Saunders stories: too chaotic
- @jenniegauthor.bsky.social has written a marvellous book
- Everett is genius
FIN!
- the best of Gaitskill’s essays are amazing, but as a collection, it felt uneven / lacking in direction
- didn’t love a lot of the Saunders stories: too chaotic
- @jenniegauthor.bsky.social has written a marvellous book
- Everett is genius
FIN!
Hiya babes - one of my besties and spiller of secrets 😇
October 9, 2023 at 1:40 PM
Hiya babes - one of my besties and spiller of secrets 😇
Spent the weekend talking, eating, writing, faffing (omg SO much faffing) with this one @helenrye.bsky.social - and it was WONDERFUL! 💜 🥹
October 9, 2023 at 11:43 AM
Spent the weekend talking, eating, writing, faffing (omg SO much faffing) with this one @helenrye.bsky.social - and it was WONDERFUL! 💜 🥹