Multicultural literature in contemporary Britain

The superset of muticultural novels including authors of (post-)colonial origin.

Hanif Kureishi
Born 1954. Wrote the screenplay to My Beautiful Laundrette(1985).

Intimacy (1998)

Vikram Seth
Born 1952.

A suitable Boy (1993)

An Equal Music (1999)

Timothy Mo
Born 1950.

Sour Sweet(1982) - Set in 1960's London. About the family of the Chens in London's Chinatown.

The Redundancy of Courage (1991)

Andrea Levy
Born 1956.

Small Island (2004)

The Long Song - written to encourage the pride of slave descendents

Monica Ali
Born 1967.

Brick Lane (2003)

Zadie Smith
Born 1975.

White Teeth (2000)