Item category 2: Black & Asian Interests

Originally published in 1901, this is a secret-service story of a boy's dream world set in British India.

Etsuko, a Japanese woman, is living alone in England. As she contemplates the suicide of her daughter she retreats into the past and finds herself reliving a particular hot summer in Nagasaki as she and her friends tried to build a life together.

Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way.

First published in 1954, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the depression.

One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, 'White Teeth' is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tri...

This is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years.

Ladies Coupé takes the reader into the heart of six women's lives in India. It reveals how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same the world over.

This is a collection of poems by 12 Caribbean and UK-born performance poets. Along with biographies of each poet, there is a detailed introduction that discusses Black poetry and its roots in the oral traditions of African and Caribbean culture. The CD includes live performance of selected poems.

Pi lives in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns the city's zoo. The family decides to immigrate to Canada, but tragedy strikes at sea. In the lifeboat are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.