 | London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City by Sukhdev Sandhu
Buy used from: £5.00 Study of black Londoners. Accessible. Fun
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 | A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700-2000 by C. L. Innes
Buy new: £45.00 / Used from: £40.46 Very wideranging and authoritative
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 | Home Truths: Fictions Of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain by Susheila Nasta
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £15.00 First book on Asian Lit in Britain. Recommended
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 | Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation by Mark Stein
Buy new: £15.84 / Used from: £26.10 How Black and Asian writers changed Britain
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 | Minaret by Leila Aboulela
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.01 Abouleila is here to stay
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 | The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 13: 1948-2000: The Internationalization of English Literature: 1948-2000 - The Internationalization of English Literature Vol 13 by Bruce King
Buy new: £47.50 / Used from: £21.00 Good place to start
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 | Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing by James Procter
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £2.00 Reads key texts in an orignal way
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 | White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Still one of the best novels
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 | A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Buy new: £13.59 / Used from: £2.64 Challenging take on people trafficking and interracial relationships
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 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Buy new: £4.83 / Used from: £0.01 Good read, yes, but the hype about it spoiled the book for me
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 | The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £0.72 controversial but very good
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 | The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 FUNtastic and still going strong
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 | London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (Literature, Culture, and Identity) by Mike Phillips
Buy used from: £3.71 Focuses on black London--very good
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 | Small Island by Andrea Levy
Buy used from: £0.06 Levy is a winner -- her best book yet
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 | A Reader's Guide to West Indian and Black British Literature by David Dabydeen
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £3.49 Very readable and wideranging, one of the 1st in this area
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 | Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis by John Clement Ball
Buy used from: £47.15 Focus on postcolonial London -- this seems THE thing now
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 | Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis by John McLeod
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £13.50 Study of black Londoners. Looks good
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 | Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £0.01 Gurnah is an excellent writer and this is his newest novel
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 | Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.25 New collection featuring several young essayists. Break new ground.
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 | Black British Writing
Buy new: £53.00 / Used from: £40.31 New Collection of essays. Will read it soon
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 | Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.82 Interviews with key writers, very readable, very useful
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 | Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology
Buy new: £14.28 / Used from: £15.91 Excellent anthology of stories, poems, essays
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 | Hanif Kureishi (Writers & Their Work) by Ruvani Ranasinha
Buy new: £8.99 Short but thorough study of Kureishi
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 | Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture (Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture)
Buy new: £142.50 / Used from: £37.50 Costly, but good when you're doing an essay
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 | Black British Feminism: A Reader
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £9.00 Eye-opener, strongly recommended
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