Reflections from YA Authors Liselle Sambury, M.T. Khan, and L. Akhter in conversation with Iqra Abid.

Walker Books has snapped up two "magical" middle-grade titles from 22-year-old debut author M T Khan. The first title, Nura and the Immortal Palace, publishes in paperback on 7th July 2022, featuring cover art by Lahore-based artist Hazem Asif.

M.T. Khan describes the ongoing conflict between pursuing art or science, and how the two might be more interweaved than people like to believe.

M.T. Khan's NURA AND THE IMMORTAL PALACE, the first in a series set in a rural industrial town in Pakistan, in which a 12-year-old is swept away to a luxury jinn hotel after the mines she spends her days working in collapse, sells to Jimmy Patterson, in a six-figure pre-empt, in a two-book deal.