Book Review and the self love lab

Midnight at Malabar House

by Vaseem Khan

Book review by: Shulah Palmer-Jones the library Supervisor for Junction 3 and St Pauls

The first in a brilliant new historical crime series: Midnight at Malabar House is a fantastic murder mystery set in post-partition India. A country striving for a new identity while at the same time trying to navigate the remnants of its tumultuous past. Modern, smart and forward thinking Inspector Persis Wadia is

India's first female police detective, and Archie Blackfinch, a Scotland Yard forensics expert. When a prominent British diplomat is suddenly found murdered the unlikely pair are tasked with solving the case. In the tradition of all the best crime novels

Vaseem Khan weaves well researched haistorical fact with a mysterious and complex plot to leave you guessing right up to the very last page. If you like Agatha

Christie you will love The Malabar House.

Dominique Antonina

"Emotional well-being and community are intrinsically linked. Part of the suffering I see in our culture and want to speak to is that we are so often alone with our experiences, or we have internalized it with feelings of shame, confusion, fear. As soon as we hear other people in their pain we can recognize ourselves in the other. By sharing and being witnessed, we give permission to the other to be held, and we allow that for ourselves. The whole of us wants to be held and accepted, not exiled and stigmatized. Our culture needs that kind of belonging and connection to other humans more than ever. " (Dominique Antonina)

Facilitator, writer and coach Dominique Antonina holds qualifications in Emotional Freedom Techniques, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Reiki , Grief Tending and Transformational Life Coaching. She works for Psycare UK doing psychedelic welfare and harm reduction and has held space for people in their shadow on psychedelics and works with the Inner Child. Her favorite topics to bring soothing and medicine to are self-love, grief and the loss of community in our fragmented modern world. You can discover more about her work at theselflovelab.org