A Reading List from Nadeem Aslam
To commemorate our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, the British Council is generously providing a substantial book fund. Nadeem Aslam has drawn up a list of contemporary British fiction he would like to see in the Gelman Library purchased through this fund. Here it is:
Haunts of the Black Masseur – Charles SprawsonRedundancy of Courage – Timothy MoJohn Berger – And Our Faces My Heart Brief as Photos + Once in EuropaPat Barker – Ghost RoadCandia McWillian – Debatable LandHolinghurst – Folding StarColm Toibin – Blackwater LightshipAmit Chaudhuri – Freedom SongBruce Chatwin – Utz + On the Black HillRomesh Gunesekra – ReefMohsin Hamid – Moth SmokeD H Lawrence – Twilight in Italy + Sea and SardiniaIan McEwan – The Cement GardenNaipaul – A House for Mr Biswas + A Bend in the River + The Engma of arrivalFermor – A Time to Keep SilenceSebastain Barry – A Long Long WayGeoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment + Missing of the Somme + Yoga for People who Can’t bt Bothered to do it.Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaSarah Hall – The Electric MichelangeloKamila Shamise – A City by the SeaWilliam Fiennes – Snow GeeseAli Smith – Hotel worldBen Rice – Pobby and DinganSarfraz Manzoor – Greetings from Bury ParkWinterson – The PassionDavid Mitchell – Ghostwritten + Number9Dream + Black Swan GreenHanif Kuraeshi – Buddha of Suburbia
Although we will not be able to purchase all these books, the fund will enable a significant increase to our collections … and will ensure that the GW-British Council Writer in Residence leaves an enduring and material imprint.
