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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 60 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Sunny by Sukh Ojla
    Sunny - by Sukh Ojla

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529356991 | ISBN 10: 1529356997

    'If you've ever felt lonely, overlooked, unappreciated and just "wrong" this is the book for you... Very funny, blisteringly honest' Marian Keyes   'I was laughing from the very first page. Sunny is a big, bright novel that radiates energy and war ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
    Marriage Material - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529156201 | ISBN 10: 1529156203

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE  FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT AND EMPIRELAND  When Arjan returns to the Black Country after his father's death, his family's corne ... more

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  • Cover image of book Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguru
    Common Ground - by Naomi Ishiguru

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472273338 | ISBN 10: 1472273338

    *An Evening Standard Must Read, Grazia Best Book of 2021 and Independent Debut Not to Miss*  Did you ever have a friend who made you see the world differently?   Stan did, and his name was Charlie. They crossed paths by chance one day, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tongues and Bellies by The Whole Kahani
    Tongues and Bellies - by The Whole Kahani

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838060312 | ISBN 10: 1838060316

    A third collection of short-form stories from The Whole Kahani. The mood is mischievous and ingenious as characters invent and seek half-hidden truths and half-forgotten memories. From these pages floats a mouth-watering aroma of cherished childhood ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain
    The Family Tree - by Sairish Hussain

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008297480 | ISBN 10: 0008297487

    Your roots can always lead you home...   Amjad cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He has no time to mourn his wife's death. Saahil and Zahra, his two small children, are relying on him. Amjad vows to love and protect them ... more

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  • Cover image of book The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
    The One Who Wrote Destiny - by Nikesh Shukla

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786492807 | ISBN 10: 1786492806

    Guardian‘s Best Summer Books 2018  “A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.” Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian   Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones and a n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fierce Fairytales & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
    Fierce Fairytales & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul - by Nikita Gill

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781409181590 | ISBN 10: 1409181596

    Beautifully illustrated feminist fairytales for young and old.   Reimagining traditional tales, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover.  Gone ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
    The Golden House - by Salman Rushdie

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784707095 | ISBN 10: 1784707090

    **New York Times bestseller**   When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in dow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
    Home Fire - by Kamila Shamsie

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408886793 | ISBN 10: 1408886790

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017   Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneek ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Tears by Hari Kunzru
    White Tears - by Hari Kunzru

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241977873 | ISBN 10: 0241977878

    A feverish new tale from the bestselling author of The Impressionist: two ambitious young musicians are drawn into a dark underworld, haunted by the ghosts of a repressive past.  Two twenty-something New Yorkers: Seth, awkward and shy, and Carter ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
    The Golden Legend - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571330751 | ISBN 10: 0571330754

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018   For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minarets of the city’s mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike. Then when shots ring out on the Grand ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nothing by Hanif Kureishi
    The Nothing - by Hanif Kureishi

    £14.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571332014 | ISBN 10: 0571332013

    One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab's bedroom which is next to mine.   Waldo, a fêted filmmaker, is confined ... more

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  • Cover image of book Akram
    Akram's War: A Novel of One Young Muslim's Journey to Radicalization - by Nadim Safdar

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782397328 | ISBN 10: 1782397329

    One night, Akram Khan walks out of his house towards an appointed time and place where he is supposed to detonate a bomb that will end his life and that of many innocent bystanders. As he wanders through the town he encounters Grace, whose life has b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam
    The Bones of Grace - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781847679789 | ISBN 10: 1847679781

    Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. H ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
    Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - by Salman Rushdie

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784701857 | ISBN 10: 1784701858

    From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Y ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
    The House of Hidden Mothers - by Meera Syal

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781862300538 | ISBN 10: 1862300534

    How far would you go to get the life you can't have?   Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.   Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
    The Buried Giant - by Kazuo Ishiguro

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571315079 | ISBN 10: 0571315070

    'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay ...' The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declinin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif Kureishi
    Love + Hate: Stories and Essays - by Hanif Kureishi

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571319701 | ISBN 10: 057131970x

    Hate skews reality even more than love.   In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
    The Buddha of Suburbia - by Hanif Kureishi

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571313174 | ISBN 10: 0571313175

    "My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost ..."   The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam
    Season of the Rainbirds - by Nadeem Aslam

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571313303 | ISBN 10: 0571313302

    The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost Lovers.   A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a small town in Pakistan ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
    The Year of the Runaways - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447241645 | ISBN 10: 1447241649

    The heart-stopping new book from one of Granta's Best of British Novelists 2013  Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015  The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by ci ... more

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  • Cover image of book Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri
    Odysseus Abroad - by Amit Chaudhuri

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780747446 | ISBN 10: 1780747446

    Its 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been a student in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an inveterate outsider, and yet he can't help feeling that there is something romantic about his isolati ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am China by Xiaolu Guo
    I Am China - by Xiaolu Guo

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099583738 | ISBN 10: 0099583739

    Two lovers, separated by oceans and an oppressive political regime, desperate to find their way back to each other.  Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize   In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
    The House of Hidden Mothers - by Meera Syal

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780385410731 | ISBN 10: 0385410735

    Little India, East London: Shyama, aged forty-four, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.   Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape.   When Shyama and M ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi
    The Last Word - by Hanif Kureishi

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571277551 | ISBN 10: 0571277551

    Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste.   Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biog ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
    The Lives of Others - by Neel Mukherjee

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099554486 | ISBN 10: 0099554488

    An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who tries to reimagine his place in the world. ***Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014*** ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
    In the Light of What We Know - by Zia Haider Rahman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447231233 | ISBN 10: 1447231236

    A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surpr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blind Man
    The Blind Man's Garden - by Nadeem Aslam

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571287949 | ISBN 10: 0571287948

    From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.   Jeo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Children by Roopa Farooki
    The Good Children - by Roopa Farooki

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780755383443 | ISBN 10: 0755383443

    From the twice Orange Prize Longlisted author of Bitter Sweets and The Flying Man. Perfect for any reader of Jhumpa Lahiri and Khamila Shamsie.   Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another.   1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
    Marriage Material - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099558675 | ISBN 10: 009955867x

    An epic tale of family, love, and politics spanning the twentieth century, told with humour, tenderness and insight by one of Britains most promising young writers. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award If youve approached Bains Stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
    Five Star Billionaire - by Tash Aw

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007494187 | ISBN 10: 0007494181

    Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to Chinas most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel.   Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambi ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
    How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - by Mohsin Hamid

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241144671 | ISBN 10: 0241144671

    Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a bold new novel for the modern world. In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-tell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Village by Nikita Lalwani
    The Village - by Nikita Lalwani

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141030401 | ISBN 10: 0141030402

    The Village by Nikita Lalwani is a disturbing and utterly gripping modern morality tale set in contemporary India.   On a winter morning Ray Bhullar arrives at the gates of an Indian village. She is here to make a film. But this will be no o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
    Gods Without Men - by Hari Kunzru

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141020211 | ISBN 10: 0141020210

    2008. The California desert. A four-year-old boy disappears in the wilderness and his parents find themselves at the centre of a media witch-hunt. A British rock star hides out at a run-down motel. A teenage Iraqi refugee lives a surreal life as a ro ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wedding Wallah by Farahad Zama
    The Wedding Wallah - by Farahad Zama

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122687 | ISBN 10: 0349122687

    Mr Alis flourishing marriage bureau seems to have chalked up another success when his ward, Pari, receives a surprise proposal from a rich, handsome aristocrat. But why is the boys family so keen to get him married to Pari - an orphan, a widow, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Collected Stories by Hanif Kureishi
    Collected Stories - by Hanif Kureishi

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571249824 | ISBN 10: 0571249825

    Over the course of the last 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written short fiction. The stories are, by turns, provocative, erotic, tender, funny and charming as they deal with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein
    The Cloud Messenger - by Aamer Hussein

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846590894 | ISBN 10: 1846590892

    London, that distant rainy place his father lived in once, is where Mehran finds himself after leaving Karachi. And it is there that his adult life unfolds: he discovers the joys of poetry, faces the trials of love and work and spends his dreaming ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
    Saraswati Park - by Anjali Joseph

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007360789 | ISBN 10: 0007360789

    A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author recently chosen as one of the Telegraphs 20 under 40 best UK writers.  Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ours are the Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
    Ours are the Streets - by Sunjeev Sahota

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330515818 | ISBN 10: 0330515810

    An electrifying debut novel from a new British voice: the story of a bright young man radicalized after the death of his father. Imtiaz Raina, born in Sheffield, young father, young husband, son of loving parents, has decided to die. He has c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
    Luka and the Fire of Life - by Salman Rushdie

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099421894 | ISBN 10: 0099421895

    On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Lukas storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To sav ... more

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  • Cover image of book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Never Let Me Go - by Kazuo Ishiguro

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571258093 | ISBN 10: 0571258093

    In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.   Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall - by Kazuo Ishiguro

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571245000 | ISBN 10: 0571245005

    Described by the New York Times as an original and remarkable genius, Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, including Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day.  Now in Nocturnes, a sublime story cycle, he explores ideas of love, mus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
    Brixton Beach - by Roma Tearne

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007301560 | ISBN 10: 0007301561

    Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs br ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
    In the Kitchen - by Monica Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552774864 | ISBN 10: 0552774863

    'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?' 'Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'At the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
    A Case of Exploding Mangoes - by Mohammed Hanif

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099516743 | ISBN 10: 0099516748

    There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
    The Enchantress of Florence - by Salman Rushdie

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099421924 | ISBN 10: 0099421925

    A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital.   T ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru
    My Revolutions - by Hari Kunzru

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141020204 | ISBN 10: 0141020202

    It's the day before Mike Frame's fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn't matter, because it's not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
    Gifted - by Nikita Lalwani

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030395 | ISBN 10: 0141030399

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007.  Cardiff in the 1980's is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
    Something to Tell You - by Hanif Kureishi

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571238767 | ISBN 10: 0571238769

    Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who, as the book opens, is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love (a relationship that continues to haunt him), and on a brutal act of violence fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gypsy Masala by Preethi Nair
    Gypsy Masala - by Preethi Nair

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007305018 | ISBN 10: 000730501x

    "Tell me about your dreams, and if you have dared to follow them..."   This is the challenge for three members of the Vishavan family. Evita (real name Molu, but she's always had a tendency towards the theatrical) is stuck in a 9-to-5 job u ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cambridge Curry Club by Saumya Balsari
    The Cambridge Curry Club - by Saumya Balsari

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905147694 | ISBN 10: 1905147694

    An ironic postcolonial romp that has little to do with British curry, takes a potshot at everything and keeps you laughing until it hurts.  It's Cambridge. Not college or chapel, but the shop 'IndiaNeed' on colourful Mill Road. Nothing should ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dancing with the Two-Headed Tigress by Tina Biswas
    Dancing with the Two-Headed Tigress - by Tina Biswas

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552773232 | ISBN 10: 0552773239

    Fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is on her way to visit her cosmopolitan relations in London.   She is welcomed by the Majumdar family: Prakash, a doctor with too much heart, who is married to Tuhina, a steely investment banker. But it is Darshin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Londonstani by Gautam Malkani
    Londonstani - by Gautam Malkani

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007231768 | ISBN 10: 0007231768

    Set close to the Heathrow feed roads of Hounslow, Malkani shows us the lives of a gang of four young men: Hardjit the ring leader, a Sikh, violent, determined his caste stay pure; Ravi, determinedly tactless, a sheep following the herd; Amit, whose b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
    Shalimar the Clown - by Salman Rushdie

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099421887 | ISBN 10: 0099421887

    The place is Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar, the Clown.  The dead man is a World War ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hair - A Journey Into the Afro and African Experience: Poems, Stories, Styling Tips by Shirley May and Pete Kalu
    Hair - A Journey Into the Afro and African Experience: Poems, Stories, Styling Tips - by Shirley May and Pete Kalu

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905778010 | ISBN 10: 1905778015

    Hair: A celebration of Afro and Asian hair in poetry and fiction.Hair is surrounded by traditions, legends, folklore, myths and everyday joys and frustrations.Twists, dreads, comb styles, weaves, fluffed, afro'd, dyed, treated: every style has its ... more

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  • Cover image of book Transmission by Hari Kunzru
    Transmission - by Hari Kunzru

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141008295 | ISBN 10: 0141008296

    It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected...  Meet Arjun Mehta, and Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Sco ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (Editors)
    So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future - by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (Editors)

    £17.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781551521589 | ISBN 10: 155152158x

    So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour.   Stories of imagine ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brick Lane by Monica Ali
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    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780552771153 | ISBN 10: 0552771155

    At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years he elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can b ... more

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    One Hundred Shades of White - by Preethi Nair

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007143467 | ISBN 10: 000714346x

    Maya, her mother Nalini, and her brother Satchin have left a carefree life in India to come to England. But when Maya's father disappears leaving only deceit and debt behind, they are left to fend for themselves in a strange, damp land. Maya, th ... more

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    £7.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781901969146 | ISBN 10: 1901969142

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