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From the reviews of Kandahar Cockney:

‘Funny, pacy, illuminating…it really is as good as everyone’s saying. I recommend it hugely’

JAMES DELINGPOLE, Mail on Sunday

‘Fergusson’s sensitivity to his themes and the congruity of prose and dialogue give Kandabar Cockney the flavour of a novel…a richly entertaining, artful slice of journalism that turns a potentially miserable subject into a penetrating comedy of cultural values’

WILL COHU, Daily Telegraph

‘A unique journey into the terrifying life of an asylum seeker in London…God knows, we need writers and such books to describe the desperate dispossessed who crawl to this island…a cracking story; his writing is clear and intimate’

YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN, Independent

‘Tender and entertaining, Kandahar Cockney manages to span some of the great divides of our age – between migrant and native, the developed and developing world, Islam and the West’

PHILIP MARSDEN, TLS

‘First-class…Fergusson always notices the right things, and describes them in a way that leaves a reviewer thinking “I wish I’d written that”’

MATTHEW LEEMING, Literary Review

‘A book which should be read by anyone who wants to know the meaning of modern exile’

SUSANNAH HERBERT, Sunday Telegraph

‘A moving and intelligent book. Culture-clash is an old theme: but few people have done it better, and fewer have taken such trouble to explore their own cities in order to find it’

Economist