What’s in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain: A New Statesman Book of the Year

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Weight 0.446 kg
Dimensions 3.4 × 14 × 21.8 cm
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Format

Hardback

Language

Pages

336

Publisher

Year Published

2023-8-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

152936759X

About The Author

Sheela Banerjee is a writer and academic. She grew up mainly in Hayes, west London, and in India. She was a programme-maker for the BBC and Channel 4 for many years before leaving TV to do a PhD on ghosts in modernist literature. What's in a Name? is her first book.

This is a brilliantly enlightening book that uses the keyhole of people's names to let us see into the lives and histories of people in multicultural Britain. It ranges across continents and epochs, at times moving, at others ironic, full of insights and detail.

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A sharp and timely examination of Britain's history, through the prism of something intimate and everyday – everyone's name tells a story, no matter how ordinary