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to later work on ecosocialism and the politics of modernism

nail-biting mission that sees her trapped in one of the city's tallest buildings during a blackout

Yasmin Cordery Khan: Edgware Road [2022] hardback LITCR The instant Sunday Times andA wide ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award winning historian. 1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful wife and daughter. He's a world away from Karachi and the family he left behind. But Khalid likes to gamble, and he likes to win. Twenty pounds on the fruit machine, fifty on a sure thing horse, a thousand on an