Author guide

Kamila Shamsie Books in Order

Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani-British writer born in Karachi in 1973. She is the author of eight novels, beginning with In the City by the Sea and including Salt and Saffron, Kartography, Broken Verses, Burnt Shadows, A God in Every Stone, Home Fire, and Best of Friends. Her other published work includes the nonfiction manifesto Offence: The Muslim Case, the picture book Duckling, and separately published short fiction. Her novels have received major literary prizes and nominations, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, which she won for Home Fire in 2018. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.