We're delighted to announce that our third anthology 'Tongues and Bellies' has been published! 

These stories play with lies and truth. Chameleon-like characters clutch at worlds that remain just out of reach. An old recipe, a robot, a key – these are clues to the people they once were or hope to be. Appetite and eating are often central in this collection as characters remember childhood meals, a mother’s cooking, meals with lovers and meals that turn out not as expected. Their appetite for food, as for life, is by turns bitter and sweet but never predictable.

‘Rich, incisive and at times magical, this is a collection to be savoured and cherished. A joy from start to finish.’
– Awais Khan, author of No Honour

'Tongues and Bellies' can be purchased at Linen Press.

Here's a fantastic promotional price to celebrate the publication of our anthology. 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. Read the thought=provoking exchange here. 

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 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 It awards unpublished fiction by UK-based Black and Asian women.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.