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Cows Can’t Jump

Winner of the Spotlight First Novel Prize

This witty and poignant coming-of-age story catapults 18-year-old Billy Reed across Europe. Penniless and desperate to escape middle England, Billy is working as a grave-digger, the ultimate dead-end job. To make matters worse, he’s a virgin, and there’s no hope of him meeting a girl any time soon. The only women at work are in coffins. Meeting the older, mysterious Eva changes everything. A scramble across Europe follows, involving hitch-hiking with truckers, walking with refugees, and an encounter with suicidal cows. But the further Billy goes, the harder it is to be sure what he’s chasing – and what he’s running from. Part coming-of-age narrative, part European travel adventure, this is a hilarious and moving book for everyone who wants to break away and follow their dreams.

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Modesty: A Fashion Paradox

A Harper’s Bazaar Essential Fashion Book 2020

Featured at the Contemporary Muslim Fashion exhibit at the Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City

Modest fashion has been gaining momentum in the mainstream industry over the past half-decade, reaching its peak as a booming retail category. It’s consistent appearance on the runways, on celebrities and in the headlines of fashion publications have shown that the modest fashion movement is hugely relevant to consumers. This book speaks to the various voices who have helped shaped the modest fashion industry to discover the lasting potential of the retail category, while also exploring the controversies that lie at the heart of the movement, such as one pressing question: even if it covers the skin, can fashion truly be modest, if it is flamboyant, modeled with the purpose of attracting attention, and publicly promoted on social media?

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Children of War

Hassanakis is a young Muslim boy of Turkish descent growing up on Crete during WWI. Fifteen generations of his family have lived on the island and until now he has never had any reason not to think he is a Cretan. But with the Great Powers tussling over the collapsing Ottoman Empire and the island’s Christians in rebellion, an outbreak of ethnic violence forces his family to flee to the Cretan City of Chania. He begins to lay down roots and his snappy dress earns him the nickname of Hassan ‘the mirror’. As WWI draws to a close and the Turkish War of Independence rages, he begins a heady romance with the elegant Hüsniye. There are rumours that the Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey but Hassanakis can’t believe he will be sent to a country whose language he barely knows and where he knows no-one.

This powerful novel drawn from the diary of a refugee family evokes the beauty, complexity and trauma of Crete’s past and weaves it into a moving tale of an ordinary man living through extraordinary times.

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