The banalities of domestic life are familiar, but the conditions under which they are presented are utterly strange. It would be funny if the stakes weren’t so real. Khawla Ibraheem in A Knock ...

And I cried so much while writing the book. I needed those tears to write. I don’t know what people in the Aroma cafe I wrote ...

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New Empire Pictures, the London production and development joint venture founded by Downton Abbey producer Liz Trubridge and ...