Bluemoose to publish Naseem Khan memoir

Bluemoose Books is to publish Naseem Khan's memoir Everywhere is Somewhere in November.

Khan, who passed away on June 8th, was "instrumental" in bringing ethnic minority arts into the mainstream, and was a "major force" within The Arts Council following the publication of her report ‘The Arts Britain Ignores’, which highlighted the burgeoning arts activity among Britain’s ethnic communities.

After studying at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, whilst travelling in Pakistan during the second India-Pakistan war in 1965, she was held as an Indian spy but was later released back into India.

Following this Khan moved back to London, and became part of the black power scene in Notting Hill, west London, editing the Hustler magazine with contemporaries including Darcus Howe.

Her books included Voices of the Crossing (Serpent's Tail), with Ferdinand Dennis, about the impact that writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa have had on Britain, Asians in Britain (Dewi Lewis Publishing), providing the text to accompany photographs by Tim Smith, and she contributed to Being British: The Search for Values That Bind the Nation (Mainstream Publishing), edited by Gordon Brown and Matthew D’Ancona. In 1999 she was awarded an OBE.

The publisher holds world rights to the memoir which will be published on 30th November 2017.