2006 - 2007

> Appearances during the year at various literary festivals, including Edinburgh and Cheltenham, both in his own right and as chair for a number of Decibel events (Arts Council England).

> RNIB Talking book version of Psychoraag launched in August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Sept 2006
> Panel speaker at launch of Cultivasian magazine at the Nehru Centre, London, September.

> Marseille (September 2006) as part of the Glasgow-Marseille city ‘noir’ twinning process. Panellist and featured writer at this festival.

> The Garden of the Fourteenth Moon (September 2006): Commissioned by Peace Arts to write a musical stage drama for performance. A magical play/ dance-musical based on folk tales for audiences of all ages but with a serious point. Worked with Paragon Ensemble. Packed houses every night and good reviews.

> The Aerodrome: Published in a web publication, www.scotiareview.org

> The Saelig Tales (2006): A novella set across time in Sussex and eastern Anatolia, published in ‘Magic Afoot’, the print version of web publication: www.textualities.net

> Cool Britannia (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach GmbH, Berlin). A German anthology of British writing, published in German. Short story, ‘The Pier’ commissioned by AL Kennedy, who edited this anthology.

> Londonstani (Gautam Malkani, Fourth Estate, 2006): Review for the ‘Independent’ newspaper of this novel.

> The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media’ (Lila Rajiva, Monthly Review Press, 2006, USA): Review for ‘Asians in the Media’ (web-mag) of this book,
www. http://www.asiansinmedia.org

2007

> Pause for Thought – fourteen so far between 2006-7 – broadcast on The Dawn Patrol, the Sarah Kennedy Show (BBC Radio Two) which broadcasts between 6-730 in the morning. If you’re up early enough!

> The One O’Clock Gun (2006-7, in six instalments). A short story serial, ‘Acid Tales from the Old Country’.

> Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, Montreal Canada, April 2007. Wonderful audiences. Several radio and press interviews.

> Luton, Actually (Safraz Manzoor, Bloomsbury, 2007): Review for The New Statesman of this memoir by the Guardian columnist and BBC Two Newsnight Review regular.

> Short stories published in the 10th Anniversary edition of the Spain-based Barcelona Review magazine and on http://www.devolvingdiasporas.com  

> ‘The Icarus Tree’(published in The Dreaming City: Glasgow and the Power of Mass Imagination, Demos).

> ‘Solomon’s Jar’ published in web-magazine, thanalonline, which is based in Kerala, India http://www.thanalonline.com/Issues/05/story_en.htm

> ‘The Dancers’ published in Pakistani Literature, a book of new writings in English from Pakistan which was published by the Pakistan Academy of Letters.

> A hybrid painted-photographic portrait of Suhayl Saadi appeared as part of an exhibition of portraits of twenty-five contemporary Scottish writers by highly respected artist, Iain Clark in May 2007 at The Word literary festival in Aberdeen, in Inspired at The Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, August 2007 and in Capture at The Collins Gallery, Glasgow, August - September 2007.

> Suhayl Saadi featured as one of the Pakistani British talents in the Britstar magazine, published by the High Commission of Pakistan to the UK, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Pakistan’s Independence in August 2007. 

> Clipper Audiobooks published The White Cliffs on CD, audio cassette and in book form.

> The BBC published The White Cliffs as an audio book: www.bbcaudiobooks.co.uk

> Psychoraag published in French by the Paris-based publisher, Editions Métailié, in September 2007.

Working on a new novel, courtesy of a writer’s bursary from the Scottish Arts Council. Watch this space!

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