The Age of Calamities

Name: The Age of Calamities
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ISBN: 9781805338109

Senaa Ahmad

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Pushkin Press
12 May 2026

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories

Step into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here.

Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but there's just one small problem - she's alive again by morning, sipping tea at the breakfast table. In the gilded hush of the Winter Palace, the Romanov sisters slip through time and waltz aboard a star-bound spaceship. A woman on the run strikes a sinister bargain with the ghost of Joan of Arc, but can she reclaim her body in time for sunrise?

Fiercely inventive and darkly playful, these stories unfold on history's fault lines, where women take their revenge against ill-fated times. With sly wit and piercing poignancy, The Age of Calamities exhumes the past to haunt the present, charting the tragicomic yet hopeful act of living.

By: Senaa Ahmad
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781805338109
ISBN 10: 1805338102
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 12 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Senaa Ahmad's short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best Canadian Stories, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Sunburst Award, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. The Age of Calamities is her first book.