Join us at the amazing Brentford riverside cocktail bar Anima to celebrate the publication of Cllr Salman Shaheen's debut novel Freebourne. Salman will do a short reading from this extraordinary new thriller that everyone is talking about, followed by an 'In Conversation' with Anima founder Ambika Grewal. After that,  there will be plenty of time for mingling and sampling Anima's unique menu, with a chance to talk to Salman during and after his Book Signing.  The £3.00 ticket price is refunded if you purchase the book on the day.

Freebourne by Salman Shaheen

"A true page-turner." - Nick Ferrari

"Freebourne is a stunning debut from Salman Shaheen. Compelling, propulsive and endlessly surprising, it might just be the thriller of the year." - Charles Elton, bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick Mr Toppit

"An edgy, fast-paced excursion into the near future." - Sean Coughlan, BBC News

"Midsomer Murders meets The Matrix. Riveting." - Judith Woods, The Telegraph

After learning of his wife's affair with his best friend and business partner, divorced and unemployed MindTech entrepreneur Dr Harry Coulson arrives in the idyllic English town of Freebourne, looking to start a new life. But any hopes of quietly picking up the pieces of his broken world are shattered when he steps off the train to discover the body of a young woman lying in the snow. It's almost as if she'd been left there for him to find. Harry does everything he can to help. But as a stranger arriving on the night Freebourne witnesses its first murder in over a century, he not only becomes a suspect in the woman's killing but finds himself caught in a deadly game between science, faith, and free will — in a secret far darker and more terrifying than anything he could have imagined.

"A gripping murder mystery with a sci-fi flavour and an utterly original twist that keeps you guessing at every turn." - Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek

"An extraordinary new voice." - Lord Bilimoria, CBE DL

"From the moment we step onto the cobbled streets of a future all too close to our own, we are invited to unravel the mystery of Freebourne, and it's impossible to put down." - Sarah Gavron, BAFTA-winning film director

"Freebourne is a spectacular, heart-in-the-mouth ride that left me thinking long after an ending that I just never saw coming." - Daisy Donovan, TV presenter, actress and writer

"The ending will take your breath away." - Ruth Cadbury MP

Salman Shaheen is a British politician, journalist and novelist. He has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, Huffington Post, New Internationalist and Times of India and he is a regular commentator on politics and economics on TV and radio. Salman launched the UK's first-ever policy to transform wasteland into places for urban kids in deprived areas to grow food and learn about sustainability and biodiversity, and partnered with Jamie Oliver on a unique new food education programme in Hounslow. Born in Norwich in 1984, Salman studied Social & Political Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge and the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. He now lives in Brentford, West London.