 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £0.01 The definitive novel of Bengali Britain. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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 | White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Zadie Smith chronicles the appeal of groups like HT, before anyone realised the seriousness of the threat
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 | Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.01 When a writer with zero talent is published AND feted like this, you start to believe every conspiracy theory going. Utterly useless book!
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 | East of Wimbledon by Nigel Williams
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Free with Tatler when Jemima married Imran, otherwise no one would have read it
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 | White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-Century India: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Because it all started a lot earlier, of course
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 | My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durrani
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 London for seedy political exiles
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 | By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £1.02 ...And political exile of an altogether different nature
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 | Other Secrets by Farida Karodia
Buy used from: £3.10 So-so book on South African exile in London (just in case you mistakenly believed that all Muslims were Asian). Unusually for a S. African, her faith is quite peripheral to the story
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 | Only in London by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Buy used from: £0.01 Hilarious take on the Edgeware Road scene.
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 | The Hope Chest by Rukshana Ahmad
Buy used from: £0.30 Pakistani anorexic attempts recovery in UK clinic. Of course there is much more to the novel that shopping at Harrods. One of the best - albeit little known- social chronicles of expat Pak Britain
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 | Aisha by Ahdaf Soueif
Buy used from: £0.99 Story of an Egyptian girl growing up in Cairo and London
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 | In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent depiction of life in a drab, northern univeristy town
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 | A Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi
Buy used from: £1.04 The story of a young Iraqi girl whose English mother returns to the UK
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 | The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Sierra Leone and the UK. Memoirs of Muhammad Forna's daughter
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 | Turquoise by Aamer Hussein
Buy used from: £6.27 Cafe La Ville, Little Venice and reflections on the life of London's Pakistani expats
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 | Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground by Ahdaf Soueif
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.00 Essays. A reminder of what is best about British broadsheet journalism (and British culture)
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 | A Singular Hostage by Thalassa Ali
Buy used from: £0.01 Not quite the usual book about British Muslims, but interesting depiction of the cultural exchange
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 | Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton
Buy used from: £24.98 Different genre altogether, but if you want to know about the British contibution to ISLAMIC writing, THIS IS THE BOOK to read
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 | Minaret by Leila Aboulela
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting book about a Sudanese exile's experience of finding her faith in London
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