Beginner’s pluck: Full-time writer Nussaibah Younis

'Fundamentally', centred around a programme to deradicalise ISIS women in Iraq, is informative, funny, clever, and quite beautifully observed

Nussaibah Younis became political as a teenager, after the invasion of Iraq.

Brought up as a devout Muslim, Nussaibah has always been a huge reader.

“My mum hated the TV, and the library was our weekly mission. I read the classics and trashy stuff. I’d hide naughty books between my allowed ones.”