Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Stained | 2016 | Buy |
| Razia | 2019 | Buy |
Abda Khan is a British-Pakistani author and practicing barrister based in the UK. Her legal background informs her fiction, which frequently deals with questions of justice, honor, and the pressures placed on women within conservative communities. She published her debut novel Stained in 2016 and followed it with Razia in 2019.
Stained draws on Khan’s professional experience with cases involving honor-based abuse, telling the story of a young British-Pakistani woman trapped between her family’s demands and her own need for freedom. Razia takes a different approach, reaching back to thirteenth-century India to tell the story of Razia Sultan, who broke tradition to rule the Delhi Sultanate. Both books share Khan’s interest in women who push against the boundaries set for them, whether in modern-day Britain or medieval India.