1001 Nights,, 16, 25

Mahabharata,, 200

Othello,, 17

The Tempest,, 17

Wuthering Heights,, 17

Achebe, Chinua, 98

Ali, Tariq, 5, 11, 17

Islam Quintet,, 5, 11–12, 19, 30–31

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree,, 12, 14, 16–19, 21–24, 30

The Book of Saladin,, 15–19, 21–24

The Stone Woman,, 24–26, 28–29, 31

A Sultan in Palermo,, 29

The Clash of Fundamentalisms,, 12, 27

Bush in Babylon,, 12

Ali, Monica, 6, 219, 226–227

Brick Lane,, 6, 58, 121, 219–226, 228–234

Aristotle, 12, 17

Poetics,, 12, 245

Aslam, Nadeem, 218

Brecht, Bertolt, 193

The Threepenny Opera,, 193

Chia, Josephine, 171

Frog under a Coconut Shell,, 171

My Mother-in-law’s Son,, 171

Shadows Across the Sun,, 171

Conrad, Joseph, 283

Dickens, Charles, 7, 222, 329

Great Expectations,, 7, 329, 331–332, 340–342

Gupta, Sunetra, 4, 7, 184, 197

Moonlight into Marzipan,, 4, 198, 202

A Sin of Colour,, 7, 184, 194

Gunesekera, Romesh, 4, 273, 277, 290, 309

Heaven’s Edge,, 4, 277, 280–281, 283, 285, 290, 298, 302, 305–306

Reef,, 4, 273, 277–281, 283, 287

The Sandglass,, 5, 309–310, 320, 322–323, 326–328

Hartley, L[eslie] P[oles], 347

The Go-between,, 347

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 7, 165, 329

When We Were Orphans, 7, 329