Cllr Salman Shaheen
@salmanshaheen.bsky.social
Author of bestselling novel Freebourne. Cabinet Member for Culture & Public Spaces on Hounslow Council. CEO of Carter Fleet. Journalist. FRSA
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Excited to announce my debut #novel Freebourne will be published October 28 by Roundfire Books and I can at last reveal the cover!
"Impossible to put down" - Sarah Gavron, BAFTA-winning director
Available for pre-order on Amazon:
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#booksky #authorsky
"Impossible to put down" - Sarah Gavron, BAFTA-winning director
Available for pre-order on Amazon:
www.collectiveinkbooks.com/clk.html?c=6...
#booksky #authorsky
You wouldn't think it to listen to the right wing rags, snake oil salesmen and social media trolls, would you? Britain is in a precarious place. Anger and hatred are stirring. But it's not because of #immigration in and of itself. It's because of those who would weaponise it for their own gain.
Net migration to UK drops 69% year on year, ONS figures show
Figure of 204,000 in 12 months to June 2025 is lowest since 2021, statistics body says
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
You wouldn't think it to listen to the right wing rags, snake oil salesmen and social media trolls, would you? Britain is in a precarious place. Anger and hatred are stirring. But it's not because of #immigration in and of itself. It's because of those who would weaponise it for their own gain.
I welcome the lifting of the two child benefit cap, which immiserated over half a million children. Dave said we're all in it together, but austerity is not a simple exercise in balancing the books. It's a political choice to balance the books on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable.
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I welcome the lifting of the two child benefit cap, which immiserated over half a million children. Dave said we're all in it together, but austerity is not a simple exercise in balancing the books. It's a political choice to balance the books on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable.
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More than 500 immigration law experts speak out against Labour's asylum proposals
@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social
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More than 500 migration law experts speak out against Labour’s immigration proposals
Experts argue that the policies are “gimmicks” designed to make the government look tough, but they are not evidence-based
leftfootforward.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
More than 500 immigration law experts speak out against Labour's asylum proposals
@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/more...
@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social
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They called it Project Fear. Turns out, we actually underestimated how disastrous #Brexit would be for the economy. And we're all paying the price, literally, for #NigelFarage and #BorisJohnson 's lies.
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
They called it Project Fear. Turns out, we actually underestimated how disastrous #Brexit would be for the economy. And we're all paying the price, literally, for #NigelFarage and #BorisJohnson 's lies.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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"A definitive page-turner of the highest order. From the very off this richly written, and dutifully emboldened new novel is something that could, and should find its way into being on our TV screens sometime in the near future. With an ending that I bet nobody will ever see coming!"
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November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"A definitive page-turner of the highest order. From the very off this richly written, and dutifully emboldened new novel is something that could, and should find its way into being on our TV screens sometime in the near future. With an ending that I bet nobody will ever see coming!"
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Just started reading Freebourne yesterday. It's good!
Excited to announce my debut #novel Freebourne will be published October 28 by Roundfire Books and I can at last reveal the cover!
"Impossible to put down" - Sarah Gavron, BAFTA-winning director
Available for pre-order on Amazon:
www.collectiveinkbooks.com/clk.html?c=6...
#booksky #authorsky
"Impossible to put down" - Sarah Gavron, BAFTA-winning director
Available for pre-order on Amazon:
www.collectiveinkbooks.com/clk.html?c=6...
#booksky #authorsky
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Just started reading Freebourne yesterday. It's good!
TG Jones (I mean if you're going to pick random initials and a perceived common name why not just call yourself WH Smith) have a Black Friday discount on Freebourne today. If you've not grabbed a copy yet, let the creeping Americanisation of British retail be your moment.
Freebourne : A Novel
'A thinking reader's thriller with such a shocking twist I was genuinely unprepared for it.' Trezza Azzopardi, Booker-shortlisted author of The Hiding Place - After learning ...
www.tgjonesonline.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
TG Jones (I mean if you're going to pick random initials and a perceived common name why not just call yourself WH Smith) have a Black Friday discount on Freebourne today. If you've not grabbed a copy yet, let the creeping Americanisation of British retail be your moment.
Denmark's Social Democrats have learned that progressives cannot cede ground to the far right. There can be only one answer. No pasaran!
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Denmark's Social Democrats have learned that progressives cannot cede ground to the far right. There can be only one answer. No pasaran!
Increasingly, we have to see climate denial, or refusal to act, as pursuing a policy of mass murder.
#climatechange #climatedenial #globalheating #netzero #trump
#climatechange #climatedenial #globalheating #netzero #trump
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds
Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries
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November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Increasingly, we have to see climate denial, or refusal to act, as pursuing a policy of mass murder.
#climatechange #climatedenial #globalheating #netzero #trump
#climatechange #climatedenial #globalheating #netzero #trump
Dark forces may be stirring. But in the darkness, we must light a candle. Refugees deserve compassion and dignity.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Dark forces may be stirring. But in the darkness, we must light a candle. Refugees deserve compassion and dignity.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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It was wonderful to return to my old hometown last week for the launch of my debut novel. Beccles Books Ltd still have a few signed copies of Freebourne available, but they're selling out fast. The Beccles and Bungay Journal reports.
Author launches frst novel in hometown
A bestselling debut novel has been launched by Salman Shaheen, who returned to his hometown of Beccles to celebrate the publication of Freebourne.
www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It was wonderful to return to my old hometown last week for the launch of my debut novel. Beccles Books Ltd still have a few signed copies of Freebourne available, but they're selling out fast. The Beccles and Bungay Journal reports.
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Thanks once again to local author Salman Shaheen for a great evening as he launched his new novel "Freebourne" and to everyone who was able to come to the event on 3rd. We still have a couple of signed copies left but they are selling fast.
@salmanshaheen.bsky.social
@salmanshaheen.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thanks once again to local author Salman Shaheen for a great evening as he launched his new novel "Freebourne" and to everyone who was able to come to the event on 3rd. We still have a couple of signed copies left but they are selling fast.
@salmanshaheen.bsky.social
@salmanshaheen.bsky.social
📚What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
"A thinking-reader’s thriller set in an idyllic English town of the near future, with a twist that’s never been done before in fiction."
Chatting #Freebourne, #films and #food with Fresh Fiction.
"A thinking-reader’s thriller set in an idyllic English town of the near future, with a twist that’s never been done before in fiction."
Chatting #Freebourne, #films and #food with Fresh Fiction.
Salman Shaheen | A thinking-reader’s thriller set in an idyllic English town of the near future – Fresh Fiction
blog.freshfiction.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📚What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
"A thinking-reader’s thriller set in an idyllic English town of the near future, with a twist that’s never been done before in fiction."
Chatting #Freebourne, #films and #food with Fresh Fiction.
"A thinking-reader’s thriller set in an idyllic English town of the near future, with a twist that’s never been done before in fiction."
Chatting #Freebourne, #films and #food with Fresh Fiction.
Objective ranking of famous foxes from best to worst.
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fox from Animals of Farthing Wood
Fox's Crunch Creams
Fox's Glacier Mints
Br'er Fox
Fox from the Gingerbread Man
#LaurenceFox
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fox from Animals of Farthing Wood
Fox's Crunch Creams
Fox's Glacier Mints
Br'er Fox
Fox from the Gingerbread Man
#LaurenceFox
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Objective ranking of famous foxes from best to worst.
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fox from Animals of Farthing Wood
Fox's Crunch Creams
Fox's Glacier Mints
Br'er Fox
Fox from the Gingerbread Man
#LaurenceFox
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fox from Animals of Farthing Wood
Fox's Crunch Creams
Fox's Glacier Mints
Br'er Fox
Fox from the Gingerbread Man
#LaurenceFox
#LaurenceFox will probably sue for libel if called the lowest form of scum known to humanity. But truth is a complete defence in libel claims.
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
#LaurenceFox will probably sue for libel if called the lowest form of scum known to humanity. But truth is a complete defence in libel claims.
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"This mixture of whodunnit, conspiracy thriller and dystopia makes for a gripping read — and one with some thought-provoking things to say about free will and justice."
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: November 2025
HERE's a string of descriptors I've never used before: Samir Machado de Machado's novella The Good Nazi (Pushkin Vertigo, £12.99) is a Brazilian whodunnit set on a 1933 Zeppelin flight, against a back...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"This mixture of whodunnit, conspiracy thriller and dystopia makes for a gripping read — and one with some thought-provoking things to say about free will and justice."
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
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Diving into a world of mystery and moral dilemmas can be so exhilarating! Freebourne's blend of suspense and thought-provoking themes truly captures the essence of what it means to seek justice. 📚✨ #booksky #thriller #scifi
"This mixture of whodunnit, conspiracy thriller and dystopia makes for a gripping read — and one with some thought-provoking things to say about free will and justice."
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: November 2025
HERE's a string of descriptors I've never used before: Samir Machado de Machado's novella The Good Nazi (Pushkin Vertigo, £12.99) is a Brazilian whodunnit set on a 1933 Zeppelin flight, against a back...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Diving into a world of mystery and moral dilemmas can be so exhilarating! Freebourne's blend of suspense and thought-provoking themes truly captures the essence of what it means to seek justice. 📚✨ #booksky #thriller #scifi
"This mixture of whodunnit, conspiracy thriller and dystopia makes for a gripping read — and one with some thought-provoking things to say about free will and justice."
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: November 2025
HERE's a string of descriptors I've never used before: Samir Machado de Machado's novella The Good Nazi (Pushkin Vertigo, £12.99) is a Brazilian whodunnit set on a 1933 Zeppelin flight, against a back...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"This mixture of whodunnit, conspiracy thriller and dystopia makes for a gripping read — and one with some thought-provoking things to say about free will and justice."
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Thank you to The Morning Star for an excellent review of #Freebourne
#booksky #authorsky #thriller #scifi #crimefiction #novel
Well we can see what barbarism looks like. Ugly, cruel, fuelled by hate and division - blame the immigrants and forget about the billionaires profiteering as society tears itself apart. Let's give socialism a chance. Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social
#ZohranMamdani #NewYork
#ZohranMamdani #NewYork
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Well we can see what barbarism looks like. Ugly, cruel, fuelled by hate and division - blame the immigrants and forget about the billionaires profiteering as society tears itself apart. Let's give socialism a chance. Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social
#ZohranMamdani #NewYork
#ZohranMamdani #NewYork
Thank you so much to everyone who joined me for the launch of #Freebourne at ANIMA last night. It really was a dream come true. Hewson Books and Anima are all stocking signed copies. Also out now on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/3Eje9Tg
I can't wait to hear what everyone makes of the twist!
#booksky #novel
I can't wait to hear what everyone makes of the twist!
#booksky #novel
October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who joined me for the launch of #Freebourne at ANIMA last night. It really was a dream come true. Hewson Books and Anima are all stocking signed copies. Also out now on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/3Eje9Tg
I can't wait to hear what everyone makes of the twist!
#booksky #novel
I can't wait to hear what everyone makes of the twist!
#booksky #novel
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The boys are back in town for the launch of @salmanshaheen.bsky.social’s debut novel, philosophical sci-fi murder mystery Freebourne #booksky 📚
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The boys are back in town for the launch of @salmanshaheen.bsky.social’s debut novel, philosophical sci-fi murder mystery Freebourne #booksky 📚
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You are so welcome! Loving it my friend, so freaking good!!! So stoked for you and excited for all the books to come💪
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You are so welcome! Loving it my friend, so freaking good!!! So stoked for you and excited for all the books to come💪