Ayub Khan-Din

Calcutta, 1985. Living amidst the peeling grandeur of a colonial house called Dum Dum, the ancient denizens are all members of the Anglo-Indian community, a fiercely proud group for whom the imperial sun has never set. More British than the British despite their mixed race, they cling determinedly to their supposed superiority over the rest of the population. But outside the jasmine-covered walls of Dum Dum, the dark reality of hatred and bigotry is creeping closer and closer.

Last Dance at Dum Dum

By the author of the hit play and film East is East.

Rafta, Rafta--

Salford 1970: the Khan children, caught between bellbottoms and arranged marriages, are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani father's insistence on tradition, their English mother's laissez-faire and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world.

East is East

E. R. Braithwaite

"Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post in a tough but progressive East End school. Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realised."--Page [4] of cover.

Ayub Khan-Din

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