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Zohra Nabi biography

Zohra Nabi is a children’s and middle-grade author. She studied law at Cambridge and Oxford universities. She is the author of The Kingdom Over the Sea, published in 2023 by Simon & Schuster.

She grew up inventing stories for her two younger sisters.

Her new series, The Cassia Thorne Mystery, begins with Deep Dark, released in March 2025. In that book, set in a nineteenth-century London with Dickensian overtones, fourteen-year-old Cassia investigates the disappearance of children while living in the Fleet Prison and selling ballads at Bartholomew Fair.

Another of her works is The City Beyond the Stars, published in 2024.

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