18/05/2026
✨ Six years ago – in the heart of the pandemic – we published a masterpiece of literary fiction. It’s HALF PRICE today only from our website (link in bio) ✨
The Book of Naseeb tells the story of an idealistic he**in dealer who dreams of fitting the victims of war in Afghanistan with artificial limbs.
In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero’s struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service stations of modern Britain to the desert and mountains of a fictional borderland. Written in an exhilarating, incantatory blend of street argot and Quranic-inspired language, The Book of Naseeb charts an epic journey like no other.
REVIEWS
A profound contemplation of human struggle ... remarkably impressive.
— Daniel Baksi, The Independent ★★★★★
A completely absorbing, singular book. Night journey, border odyssey, angel’s-eye view of human striving.
— Yasmine Seale
Mystical and illuminating.
— Tony White
What a book - visionary, terrifying, remarkable use of language. London, Birmingham, Afghan borderland. Khaled Nurul Hakim is a writer you won’t forget.
— Tom Bolton
A true masterpiece ... an intricate exploration of sin, penance, and redemption.
— Chris Cusack, Indie Recs
[Hakim] takes the small, the mundane, the petty, and sets it against a staggering backdrop. The Book of Naseeb is compulsive reading.
— Joe Darlington, Manchester Review of Books
This is not merely the sacred slapped into electrified form by some cuss words. This is a piece of literature and its threads vanish into the hardback spine and back through to antiquity via modernism ... [Hakim] knows how to make a whole lineage of myth come alive with a single sign.
— Steve Hanson, Manchester Review of Books
