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Raidah Shah Idil is an MG, YA and Adult author who should be sleeping instead of writing. Her debut MG fantasy novel, How To Free A Jinn, was published on Sep 3rd 2024 by Allen and Unwin (Australia, NZ, Oceania and Asia) and will be published by Salaam Reads in North America and beyond in November 2025.
She is currently listening to Sabaa Tahir’s Heir.
Insyirah's calm, orderly world falls into chaos when she moves back to Malaysia with her mother. Her new home holds many mysteries, and Insyirah discovers a shocking secret: the women in her family can control jinn - power, ancient jungle spirits - and, one day, she will inherit one of hre own. What’s more, her new school is haunted by an evil spirit determined to force her out of Malaysia.
Writing/publishing/life musings by a neurodivergent Muslim Malay-Australian mother writer
