*WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE AND THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE, THE GORDON BURN PRIZE AND THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD*
'I was gripped... remarkable' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Books of the Year
'A novel so of this moment that you don't even realize you've waited your whole life for it' Marlon James

For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, 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.

Provocative, raw, poetic yet tender, IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY marks the arrival of a major new talent in fiction.

Summer for Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf means football, music and freedom. However, when a British soldier is killed, riots begin to spread across the city. Despite the danger, Selvon and Ardan remain unaffected, focusing on girls and grime. Yusuf on the other hand, is challenged when his brother Irfan becomes radicalised. Set on a London council estate, the author's portrayal mirrors his own childhood growing up in the same area. The way racial prejudice is addressed therefore has a unique authenticity, and reflects how a divided society can affect personal relationships.

Place, and its dialects, run like boiling blood through the story