In Our Mad and Furious City

Winner of the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour 2019 Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2019 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music and freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe. While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grime. Their friend Yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, Irfan, with it.