Freebourne Book Launch at Beccles Books - An Evening with Salman Shaheen

Location
Beccles Books Ltd, 1 Exchange House, Beccles, NR34 9HH

Event Details
Thursday 30th October, 2025 at 6.30pm

Join us in the bookstore for a glass of wine and an evening with Salman Shaheen to celebrate the launch of his debut novel "Freebourne", published by Roundfire Books. Salman will be reading from his book and there will be an opportunity to purchase signed copies.

Freebourne
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.

Author Bio
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. Born in Norwich in 1984, Salman grew up in Beccles, 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. He now lives in Brentford, West London.

Endorsements
A true page-turner.
Nick Ferrari, radio and TV presenter, newspaper columnist and author

A thinking reader's thriller with such a shocking twist I was genuinely unprepared for it.
Trezza Azzopardi, Booker-shortlisted author of The Hiding Place

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

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

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

An extraordinary new voice.
Lord Bilimoria, CBE DL

Impossible to put down.
Sarah Gavron, BAFTA-winning film director