Iqbal Hussain The Night I Borrowed Time

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Description: Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 01 Jan 2026
A funny, heartbreaking and uplifting tale about family, bravery and living in the here and now, perfect for fans of Time Travelling With a Hamster and Wonder.

I'm going back in time to save this family.

Eleven-year-old Zubair is a seventh son. This means a LOT of big brothers. But when Zubair's granny arrives from Pakistan and gives him a mysterious amulet, he discovers it means something else, too: he has inherited a gift. The seventh sons in his family have the ability to time-travel.

With his dad a shadow of his former self since his car accident, and his mum always tired and angry, Zubair has a genius idea. He'll use time-travel to fix things between them.

But each trip comes at a cost. If he changes something small in the past, it can have a huge effect on his future. And if he gets it wrong, the results could be devastating . . .

'Spectacular' Sophie Anderson

'I loved it' Ross Welford

'Funny, exciting and tense . . . A wonderful, wonderful read' Phil Earle

'Will break your heart and make it soar . . . A triumph' Rashmi Sirdeshpande

'Witty and poignant' Louie Stowell

'Refreshingly inventive and gorgeously written . . . I could not put it down' Clare Harlow

'Astonishing . . . A beautiful book' Philippa Leathley

'A small miracle of a book' Max Boucherat
About the Author: Iqbal Hussain has been writing since he could hold a pencil. As a boy, he churned out Famous Five and Hardy Boy pastiches. In his teens, he appeared on Blockbusters, Countdown and The Crystal Maze. He studied Maths at Bangor University, then worked as a journalist for the Guardian, the Young Telegraph and the children's magazine Aquila. Originally from Blackburn, Lancashire, he lives in north London, by Epping Forest, with his partner and uber-friendly labradoodle. His debut adult novel, Northern Boy, about being a butterfly among the bricks, was published in 2024. This is his debut children's novel.
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Reviews

It takes immense talent to blend the fantastical and the everyday so effortlessly, but Iqbal Hussain delivers on every page. Funny, warm and tense, The Night I Borrowed Time is a wonderful, wonderful read -- Phil Earle, author of When The Sky Falls
I loved it -- Ross Welford, author of Time Travelling With a Hamster
Spectacular - beautifully woven, full of warmth, wit and wisdom, and characters who live on long after the last page is turned -- Sophie Anderson, author of The House With Chicken Legs
Witty and poignant, this wonderful time travel story explores what it means to change your fate, and to accept it and let it change you -- Louie Stowell, author of Loki
Warm, funny, tender -- Patrice Lawrence, author of Orangeboy
A beautifully constructed time travel adventure that will break your heart and make it soar. It's funny, evocative, immersive and so sensitively written . . . Iqbal Hussain is an astonishing new voice. A triumph -- Rashmi Sirdeshpande, author of Hari Kumar: Ultimate Superstar
Hilarious and heartfelt . . . I loved it -- Lui Sit, author of Land of the Last Wildcat
A refreshingly inventive and gorgeously written debut. I could not put it down -- Clare Harlow, author of Tidemagic
A twisting time-travel story that bursts with heart and humanity -- Phil Hickes, author of The Haunting of Aveline Jones
A funny, heartfelt adventure that delves right to the heart of family lore . . . A truly relatable, perfectly flawed, and utterly hilarious cast of characters -- James Fox, author of The Boy in the Suit

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