Guy Gunaratne & Imran Mahmood (2018 Event)

In this event recorded live at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival, meet two new writers whose debuts are turning heads. Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City follows three young men in a London estate where riots are spreading after the killing of a British soldier. Imran Mahmood has spent his career as a barrister and he puts his experience to electric use in You Don’t Know Me, a courtroom drama which places the reader in the position of the jury.

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