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Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home by Shukla, Nikesh
Category: Biography
‘A wise and wonderful book from the hugely talented Nikesh Shukla. Written for his daughters, inspired by his mother whom they never got to meet, this love letter to his brown babies encompasses fatherhood, feminism, racial politics, growing up and being a grown up, with tenderness, depth and humour.’ M ...Show more
Brown BabyA Memoir of Race, Family and Home by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Politics
‘A wise and wonderful book from the hugely talented Nikesh Shukla. Written for his daughters, inspired by his mother whom they never got to meet, this love letter to his brown babies encompasses fatherhood, feminism, racial politics, growing up and being a grown up, with tenderness, depth and humour.’ M ...Show more
How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love by Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace McCleen, Donal Ryan, Nikesh Shukla, D.W. Wilson
Category: General Biography
'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for fami ...Show more
Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Fiction
The second novel from Costa First Novel Award shortlisted author Nikesh Shukla. 'The first and last thing I do every day is see what strangers are saying about me.' Kitab Balasubramanyam has had a rough few months. His girlfriend left him. He got fired from the job he hated for writing a novel on compan ...Show more
Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Fiction
The second novel from Costa First Novel Award shortlisted author Nikesh Shukla. 'The first and last thing I do every day is see what strangers are saying about me.' Kitab Balasubramanyam has had a rough few months. His girlfriend left him. He got fired from the job he hated for writing a novel on compan ...Show more
Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Young Adult Fiction
From the editor of The Good Immigrant, an adrenaline-fuelled, powerful YA novel about young people taking charge of their own destiny. A novel about standing up and being counted. Aspiring MC Taran and her twin brother Hari never wanted to move to Firestone House. But when the rent was doubled overnigh ...Show more
Spider-Man: India - Seva by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Western
India's own Spider-Man stars in a solo comic series after his smash hit debut in SPIDER-MAN- ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE! India's Spider-Man stars in his first series in almost twenty years! Pavitr Prabhakar is back, fresh from "The End of the Spider-Verse," in his own universe's Mumbai. But things aren' ...Show more
Stand Up by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Young Adult
Madhu is 17 and has the weight of the world on her shoulders: her dad is putting pressure on her to apply to university, she misses her estranged sister but contact is strictly forbidden, and she's pulling in every single shift possible at a pizza place to help support her family. What she really wants, ...Show more
The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Children's
Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A seventeen year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a racist attack. He finds the community he's been despe ...Show more
The Council of Good Friends by Nikesh Shukla; Rochelle Falconer (Illustrator)
Category: Junior Fiction
Vinay, Musa, Inua and Nish are best friends. Nothing can separate them... until one day when Vinay's cousin comes to invade his bunk bed haven (i.e. share his room). When a prank war starts, can the friends remember what really matters? Filled with fun illustrations by Rochelle Falconer, The Council ...Show more
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
Category: Politics
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards ...Show more