Extravagant strangers : a literature of belonging
(Book)

The shortcomings of Christian England (1770) / Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

Letter to Mr Sterne (1776) / Ignatius Sancho

Voyage to England (1789) / Olaudah Equiano

A word about dinners (1846) / William Thackeray

From The nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897) / Joseph Conrad

The English flag (1891) / Rudyard Kipling

Letter to David Kahma (1947) ; Letter to Geoffrey Stone (1948) ; Letter to Edgar Preston Richardson (1948) / Wyndham Lewis

Letter to Henry Eliot (1914) ; Letter to Eleanor Hinkley (1914) / T. S. Eliot

The tiredness of Rosabel (1924) / Katherine Mansfield

First steps (1979) / Jean Rhys

Bloomsbury : an encounter with Edith Sitwell (1932) / C.L.R. James

Confessions of a down and out (1933) / George Orwell

From Choice of straws (1965) / E. R. Braithwaite

London at night (1969) / Lawrence Durrell

In defence of the underground (1987) / Doris Lessing

From The angel at the gate (1982) / Wilson Harris

From The lonely Londoners (1956) / Samuel Selvon

'From Lucy : Englan' Lady' (1982) ; 'From Lucy : Carnival wedd'n', 1981' (1982) / James Berry

From Three continents (1987) / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

A voyage (1954) / George Lamming

An ingrate's England (1989) / Peter Porter

First impressions of London (1993) / J. G. Ballard

From Little Eden : a child at war (1978) / Eva Figes

The journey (1987) / V. S. Naipaul

From Oleander, jacaranda (1994) / Penelope Lively

From Bye-bye, blackbird (1971) / Anita Desai

From darkest England (1996) / Christopher Hope

Living in Earls Court (1984) / Shiva Naipaul

A general election (1983) / Salman Rushdie

From Pilgrim's way (1988) / Abdulrazak Gurnah

The child I never was (1986) ; Assassins (1983) / George Szirtes

From Sour sweet (1982) / Timothy Mo

Fly away home (1997) / William Boyd

Inglan is a bitch (1980) / Linton Kwesi Johnson

From Reef (1994) / Romesh Gunesekera

From The remains of the day (1989) / Kazuo Ishiguro

London taxi driver (1988) / David Dabydeen

The machine that cried (1986) / Michael Hofmann

Disparities (1986) / Ben Okri.