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One day, Mr Shah, an English teacher, encounters an unsettling mystery during lunch time: his whole school population has disappeared... With no sign of the students, the teachers, the caretakers, or even the librarians, he is left with a simple question: where on earth has everyone gone? But it's only when Shah makes a startling discovery, that his bog-standard school day transforms into a fight for his own survival, and for the whole school... Can Mr Shah and his school survive the fiendish attack of the stacks? Attack of the Stacks is a roller coaster supernatural comedy thriller that will leave you hanging off the edge of your seat, and running for your life from it Novid Shaid's published his mystical thriller, The Hidden Ones, in 2014

Darya is a Porousee: a member of a mythical rock people, who live far below the earth's crust. Deep underground, the Porousees have lived for aeons, carving, singing, narrating and sleeping, without a care in the world.But trouble erupts as a belligerent group arises, threatening to overthrow the harmonious order and to banish those unwilling to obey their demands.The only hope for the Porousees lies in a simple carver, Darya, and a mythical property called water. Darya must meet the legendary skipper and attempt the perilous journey overboard to find water, before the rebels can transform their magical world into a life of slavery and terror...The Journey Overboard And Other Stories are magical and mystical tales of profound meetings and journeys of realisation.Genre: FantasyAge Group: 13 and over

Jabran is a big, nasty bully who revels in terrorising his fellow school children, especially poor Fezzi. But when the summer holidays arrive and Jabran is on the prowl, he stumbles onto the cul-de-sac with the ominous house- the house of Jabran's nightmares. But why is Jabran so afraid of this house? And what is waiting for him in the depths of the cellar? Jabran The Bully is a dark and thrilling short story about a bully who learns a lasting lesson that will change his life forever...Age Group: Juniors and Early Teens Cover illustration and blurb design by Anna Kolos: [email protected]

Three extremists- a Muslim fanatic, a white racist and a radical feminist- get stuck in a lift. Trapped and enraged, they struggle to tolerate each other. But when the lift awakens and the inquisitions begin, their lives will never be the same again... Novid Shaid's play- The War, The Lift and The Separatists- is a political and supernatural drama, which will challenge audiences to navigate through the current tensions between multi-cultural, separatist and extremist ideologies.

Awakenings Sufi Verse is a book of poetry inspired by Islam and Sufism.

When three British Pakistani Uni boys encounter three strange girls in their dormitories, seeds of ambitions take root, and journeys into darkness begin... A short story, loosely-based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, weaving together British Pakistani, Kashmiri youth culture with Shakespeare's timeless classic on the darkness of ambition and jealousy.

Novid Shaid writes about his experiences in the famed Rihlas and deen intensive programmes, organised by Islamic scholars to rejuvenate young Muslims during the mid and late 90s. Shaid explores his outward and inward struggles with modernity and the way of Islam, iman, and ihsan.