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MARCH 2025 – publication of my middle-grade fantasy, Zara and the Bumbling Genie by Om Books International.
This story follows 11-year-old Zara, who faces losing her eyesight unless she has an operation her parents can’t afford. She meets Joom, a runaway genie hiding from his evil master in the tamarind tree outside her apartment.
When Zara’s father is fired by the villainous headmaster of her school, Zara and Joom decide to take action.
Will Zara regain her eyesight and her father his job?

Will Joom escape the clutches of his evil master and get back his magic?
Read all about the magical adventures of Zara and Joom in this children’s fantasy that adults too have enjoyed.

Pam has had enough of Honey Sarin, whose cutting barbs and snide comments have gone a little too far. This time, Pam is not going to take it lying down. For her twentieth anniversary, she resolves to throw the biggest, most glamorous party Dubai has ever seen – one that will outdo Honey’s, whose own twentieth anniversary is a week before Pam’s. But the going isn’t easy, and Pam finds herself facing countless obstacles: an ex-flame who returns and sets her heart beating again, an indifferent husband who patronises and undermines her, a shockingly rude daughter who won’t let Pam into her life, and last but not the least, an absconding worker whom she shelters. As Pam struggles to juggle all the different aspects of her life, will she be able to throw the mother of all parties?

My historical story was a finalist in the Dorothy Dunnett Short Story competition 2020 and published in their anthrology. ‘Lakshmi Will Return’, a true story based on the life of my aunt while living in British North Borneo (present-day Sabah in Malaysia) was selected from over 200 entries.