This collection begins in the early 1980s with 'The Rainbow Sign', which was written as the introduction to the screenplay of 'My Beautiful Laundrette'. I...

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...

An inventive, thought-provoking and characteristically bold collection of short fiction and essays from Hanif Kureishi, centered around the vexed relation...

'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other crimes.'A ...

What to wish for if you are a half-Indian living in the suburbs of London. If your father walks around the city in national clothes and, having read Hindu bo...

Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of a...

In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melanc...

The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for ...

The collection of short stories compiled by Nobel Prize winner in literature Nadine Gordimer is a unique phenomenon in the literary world. Here, under one co...

“My Son is a Fanatic” by English writer Hanif Kureishi (1954). A London taxi driver, a native of Pakistan, learns that his teenage son has become an adherent...

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 h...

Set in London in 1989, the year of the fatwah and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a thriller with a background of raves, ecstasy, religious ferment a...