Afsana Press

23/09/2025

Afsana Press is delighted to invite you to the opening of our gallery-bookshop in Folkestone, UK, this Friday evening. Hope to see you then:

06/09/2025

We're delighted to announce our new book for October: THE ALMOND GARDEN OF KABUL by Mandana Hendessi.
Illustration by: Soniya Ahmed

About how a group of inmates fight against injustice and corruption from inside Kabul's central women's prison.
Mandana Avesta Hendessi

To be released on 21 October.
Available for pre-order via www.afsana-press.com or bookshops and online retailers.

“As searing and unforgettable as The Shawshank Redemption.”—Dr Loretta Napoleoni, economist and award-winning author

“An important source of Afghanistan’s oral history based on gripping narratives… a great contribution to literature.”—Dr Elaheh Rostami-Povey, author and academic

Read more:
https://www.afsana-press.com/post/inside-kabul-s-almond-garden-nothing-blooms-except-rage

16/08/2025

Haven’t you read WHISPERING WALLS yet? Our BEST-SELLING book since it’s publication two years ago. You can order it from any bookshop or from our website: www.afsana-press.com

23/07/2025

Cover reveal:
We're proudly releasing the cover for our upcoming book: The British version of Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate Tree, translated by Kareem Abdulrahman.
Release date: 16 September 2025
"After being held in a desert prison for 21 years, a Peshmerga fighter in Iraq desperately searches for his son, setting off on a quest guided by memory and myth in this imaginative novel." — The New York Times

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-last-pomegranate-tree/bachtyar-ali/kareem-abdulrahman/9781738555284

12/07/2025

See you tomorrow, 13 July, at the Oxford Indie Book Fair.
11am - 4:30pm
Magdalen College School
OX4 1DZ

https://www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk/

04/07/2025

Afsana Press will be at this event tomorrow, 5 July, in London. With music and poetry reading in English and Kurdish by Choman Hardi.
See you there.
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
6-9 pm

101 Queen Caroline Street
W6 9BN

02/07/2025

Hope to see you at this event in Folkestone tomorrow, 3 July.
Choman Hardi will also sign her book WHISPERING WALLS for you, our best-selling book for two years.
At 7 pm
BETON COLLECTIVE
69 Old High Street
CT20 1RN Folkestone

Book your ticket here:

Thursday 3 July 7PM Join us for a talk with British-Kurdish writer, poet, and feminist activist Choman Hardi. Choman came to the UK as a refugee in 1993 and studied at Oxford, UCL, and the University of Kent. Her debut novel, Whispering Walls (Afsana Press, 2023), has been a best-sel

28/05/2025

Afsana Press announces the publication of THE MAN WHO WAS A TREE by Goran Baba Ali.
A speculative novel about a Photographer’s quest to capture a mysterious creature within a frame, starting them both on parallel journeys.
This speculative thriller deals with the changes that took place after the 1991 uprising in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in which a new generation was forced to watch their society transform without a voice. Like the Tree-Man, they were condemned to silence.
Order the book from our website (afsana-press.com), or from bookshops such as Waterstones and online retailers.
https://lnkd.in/eKfsn6mK

The Photographer’s quest to capture a mysterious creature within a frame starts them both on parallel journeys. The city is in turmoil; all eyes are on a naked young man who transforms into a tree by nightfall. As the Photographer tries to rescue him, his own life is thrown into disarray, risking the cherished love he holds for his Neighbour-Girl.
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The novel is about a young naked man with only a long leaf creeping around his body. In the daytime, he tries to hide from people and the authorities that are chasing him for being different and indecent. With the fall of night, he becomes a tree and starts wandering unnoticed through the streets and little alleyways, observing all kinds of secret happenings in the city. A street photographer is the first who sees in a dreamy fuddled vision this creature by the side of a river at the outskirts of the city disappearing into the nearby bushes. This starts him on an obsessive journey to find the tree-man to photograph him. The appearance of the naked man would enchain a series of events bringing the city into turmoil. The Photographer’s quest would change the course of his life, missing his long-cherished love with his Neighbour-Girl.

21/05/2025

We proudly announce that Afsana Press has signed the UK edition of Bachtyar Ali’s The Last Pomegranate Tree.

To be released on 16 September 2025 in paperback.

Afsana Press has signed the UK rights for the literary novel The Last Pomegranate Tree by multi-award-winning Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali.

The package of rights signed between Afsana Press and Bachtyar Ali, via the author’s agent Mertin Witt Literary Agency, includes also the rights for Commonwealth (excluding Canada), Europe and Asia.

Afsana Press has signed the UK rights for the literary novel The Last Pomegranate Tree by multi-award-winning Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali. The book is the first agented work published by Afsana Press, to be released on 16 September 2025 in paperback. The package of rights signed between Afsana Pre...