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The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
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Gathering BAME voices from across Britain in a searing selection of essays exploring otherness, racial inequality and the immigrant experience, Shukla’s expertly curated book is full of revealing insights on every page
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What a Desi Girl Wants
Sabina Khan
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A hilarious but dark British satire. A group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield decide to hatch an inept plan to become suicide bombers. Omar and Waj have a brief, disastrous run at a Pakistan training camp, while Faisal works on an unlikely scheme to train birds to carry bombs. Their ill-conceived plan culminates at the London Marathon with their bumbling attempts to disrupt the event while dressed in outlandish costumes.
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If They Come For Us
Fatimah Asghar
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Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring the many facets of violence: how it persists within us, how it is inherited across generations, and how it manifests itself in our relationships. In experimental forms and language both lyrical and raw, Asghar seamlessly braids together marginalized people's histories with her own understanding of identity, place, and belonging.
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The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. The bookreveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. |
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Are You Enjoying
Mira Sethi
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Childhood best friends decide to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young heiress embarks on a secret affair, ending in devastation but not for the party who was braced for it. A glum divorcee reaches out to his American neighbour. A radicalised student's preparations for his sister's wedding in Lahore involve beating up the groom. An actress from a sheltered background in Karachi is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major TV show where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. |
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South Asian Folktales, Myths & Legends
Sarah Shaffi
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With 19 stories in total, there are legends from Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Kashmir; each prefaced by a short introduction that gives some background and cultural context. |
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Burnt Sugar
Avni Dosh
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A love story and a story about betrayal. Between mother and daughter. Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery cords of memory and myth that bind two women together, and hold them apart. |
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Blue Skinned Gods
SJ Sindu
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In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.
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We Are All Birds of Uganda
Hafsa Zayyan
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1960s Uganda. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes power, and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to sweep away everything he has built. Present-day London. Sameer, a young high-flying lawyer, senses an emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams. Called back to his family home by an unexpected tragedy, Sameer begins to find the missing pieces of himself not in his future plans, but in a past he never knew.
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Hani & Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
Adiba Jaigirdar
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Hani and Ishu couldn't be less alike - and they definitely don't like each other. Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan—she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate—Ishu! Fates collide and they pretend to date each other until things start to get messy. |
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Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai
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In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother. But as Arjie comes to terms with his own homo-sexuality and with the racism of the society in which he lives, Sri Lanka is plunged into civil war as fighting between the army and the Tamil Tigers gradually begins to encroach on the family's comfortable life. Sporadic acts of violence flare into full scale riots and lead, ultimately, to tragedy.
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South Asians and the shaping of Britain, 1870-1950
Ruvani Ranasinha, Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, Florian Stadtler
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This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain's heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870-1950.
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The Patient Assassin
Anita Anand
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Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds.
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KOH-I-NOOR
Anita Anand & William Dalrymple
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The historical account of the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab who was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal Act of Submission to Queen Victoria, the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i Noor diamond. The resulting history is one of greed, murder, torture, colonialism and appropriation through an impressive slice of south and central Asian history. It ends with the jewel in its current controversial setting: in the crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
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Brown Girl Like Me
Jaspreet Kaur
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Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity. Jaspreet Kaur unpacks key issues such as the media, the workplace, the home, education, mental health, culture, confidence and the body, to help South Asian women understand and tackle the issues that affect them, and help them be in the driving seat of their own lives.
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