IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY

Guy Gunaratne

You can sense the 34-year-old Gunaratne’s training as a documentary film-maker in his debut novel, a thrillerish social panorama of his native London. One hot summer, riots spread across the capital after a British soldier is killed; under the towers of the Stones Estate, Selvon and Ardan let the fury pass them by, sticking to their obsessions: grime music and girls. But their friend, Yusuf, is caught up in the tide of radicalism surging through his local mosque, a tide that threatens to take his brother away. (Tinder)