# Vaseem Khan

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Vaseem Khan on Crime Fiction, Empire & Writing Action in The Edge of Darkness

In this episode of Rock, Paper, Swords!, Justin Hill and Matthew Harffy are joined by bestselling author Vaseem Khan to discuss historical crime fiction, empire, and his novel The Edge of Darkness. Vaseem talks about writing crime stories set in post-colonial India, the challenges of research and a…

Live from Hay with Jack Thorne and Val McDermid

Live from Hay, celebrating reading and writing in many different forms, Samira is joined on stage by Jack Thorne - multi-award-winning screenwriter of the TV sensation Adolescence and his newest drama Falling, about a nun and a priest who fall in love. Also, Tartan Noir titan Val McDermid speaks ab…

Vaseem Khan and Lucy Winkett

What does 'home' mean? The three book choices today reflect on what home means to different people. The crime writer Vaseem Khan chooses Deborah Moggach's much loved novel The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel that sees a group of elderly English people going to live in a retirement home in India. As we…

Actor Kristin Scott Thomas

British actor Kristin Scott Thomas, star of the English Patient and Four Weddings and a Funeral, reveals the personal story behind her directorial debut film, My Mother’s Wedding. Nikki Bedi is joined by critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh to discuss My Mother’s Wedding and other cultural highlights of …

M.W. Craven on The Killer's Mark Plus the Kindle That Saved a Life in Barcelona

Philippa opens with a genuinely unbelievable true story — how a friend trapped in a locked Barcelona hotel toilet used her Kindle to prise the door open and escape. Reading saves lives, people. Then it's three book reviews and a brilliant listener Q&A with crime fiction favourite M.W. Craven, talki…

Vaseem Khan & Fran Bryson

Clan Destine Café returns to far-north Scotland for the second of our Shetland Noir specials. The annual crime writing festival draws crime readers and writers from all over the world. Our roving Aussie podcaster Fran Bryson sat down with award-winning UK crime writer Vaseem Khan. Vaseem Khan is th…

A Crime Fiction Special: with David Baldacci, Anthony Horowitz, Ann Cleeves, Vaseem Khan and many more

In this bumper episode of the Radio 2 Book Club, Jeremy Vine visits the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. It's the world's largest crime writing festival, which welcomed over 20,000 crime fiction fans over four days, at the Old Swan Hotel (the hotel where Agatha Christie …

Inside the Historical Novel Society Conference 2026 | HNS 2026 Maynooth Special

It's a bumper one this week! Matthew Harffy and Justin Hill spent the weekend of 21–23 August at the Historical Novel Society's 2026 conference in Maynooth, Ireland, and grabbed dozens of short, on-the-spot interviews with historical novelists between sessions, in corridors, and over conference din…

Vaseem Khan's The Edge of Darkness (2026)

In this episode of Season 3, Mal will be taking a look at the 6th book of the Malabar House series which focuses on Persis Wadia the first female detective, in 1950s post-Independence and post Partition India. We'll be taking a look at the questions thrown up about both Persis Wadia's personal and …