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The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
  • Author(s): Osman Yousefzada
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s and 1990s

A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks. The adult world is seen through...

Who Will Remain

Who Will Remain
  • Author(s): Kasim Ali
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amir has grown up in Alum Rock, Birmingham, under the care of his sensible older brother, Bilal, and his cousin Saqib, born just a few days before Amir. Alum Rock can be a troubled place, but Amir has managed...

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