Kamal Ahmed 
The Life and Times of a Very British Man [EPUB ebook] 

A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race

»Full of charm»
GUARDIAN
»An account of what being British means»
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»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.
This is his account of an upbringing of cricket and bucket-and-spade holidays, Angel Delight and the BBC — British to the core, yet always feeling foreign in the only home he had ever known.
»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