Big advance for Afghan memoir

The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey by Gulwali Passarlay and ghosted by agency author Nadene Ghouri has become one of the buzz books of the London Book Fair after a six-figure UK sale to Atlantic Books.

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Nadene Ghouri

Nadene Ghouri

Nadene Ghouri is a multi-award winning journalist specialising in human interest and human rights issues. She is a former correspondent of both the BBC and Al Jazeera English and today is a freelance broadcaster and reporter working for BBC current affairs and leading publications including The G...More about Nadene Ghouri