The Life and Times of a Very British Man

'full Of Charm' Guardian 'an Account Of What Being British Means' I 'captures A Country In Transition ... You Can't Fail To Be Moved' The Times Kamal Ahmed's Childhood Was Very 'british' In Every Way – Except For The Fact That He Was Brown. Half English, Half Sudanese, He Was Raised At A Time When Being Mixed-race Meant Being Told To Go Home, Even When You Were Born Just Down The Road. 'ahmed Grew Up As A Mixed-race Kid In West London In The Seventies, And His Book Charts The Progress (sometimes Slow And Now Without A Few Setbacks Along The Way) That Our Country Has Made On Race Issues Since Then. Brilliant' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard