‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’ Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds, in an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection on their time together he analyses the joys and agonies of trying to make a life with another person....

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave party....

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don\"t need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab\"s bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a fкted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment....

I’m going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house. When Parvez’s son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he’s taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong....

Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi\"s acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka\"s relationship with his father, readers......

Set in London in 1989, the year of the fatwah and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a thriller with a background of raves, ecstasy, religious ferment and sexual passion. By the author of \"The Buddha of Suburbia\" and \"Sammy and Rosie......