Talat Rahim introduces the nation to the world of ‘civil serpents,’ sinister ministers and other curious creatures in her debut book on Pakistan’s bureaucracy.
In Nine Lives, William Dalrymple travels to India (and dips into Pakistan) to determine if thousands of years of spirituality still have the legs to compete with materialism.
The tension between competing secular and religious forces trying to define Pakistan’s identity is explored in Farzana Sheikh’s Making Sense of Pakistan.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s The Settler’s Cookbook is a memoir of her family’s migration from India to Uganda and finally England. It also includes recipes that are a fusion of Indian, African and English cuisines.