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Wimmy Road Boyz

Three young British Muslim men are driving up and down Manchester’s Curry Mile in pursuit of a wild night. There’s Immy, an impulsive smooth talker with a broken heart; Haris, a neurotic artist having second thoughts about his upcoming wedding; and Khan, a Cambridge graduate and wannabe gangster with nothing left to lose. As a feverish evening takes a hold of them against a backdrop of bright lights and shisha bars, the boys don’t realise their first night out in so long will also be their last . . .

Wimmy Road Boyz is a vivid and blistering story of masculinity, friendship and violence set over the course of a single, surreal night from a wholly original new British talent.

About Sufiyaan Salam

Sufiyaan Salam is a writer and former animator originally from Blackburn. He was a part of BBC Writers’ Northern Voices in 2022 and named a Screenskills/DANDI Regional Breakthrough Writer in 2023. He has several television and feature projects in active development and wrote the BFI and Film4-backed short MAGID / ZAFAR, out in 2025. Wimmy Road Boyz, winner of the #Merky New Writers Prize 2024, is his first novel.
Details
  • Imprint: Merky Books Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529952650
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Price: £8.99
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