England is Mine

Nicolas Padamsee grew up in Essex. He holds a Creative Writing MA and a Creative & Critical Writing PhD from the University of East Anglia, and is the editor of Arts Against Extremism, which promotes literature as a means of investigating, understanding and countering extremism. He splits his time between Norwich and Upton Park, London.

A brilliant dissection of race, identity, masculinity and extremism. Skilfully plotted and wholly convincing in its evocation of alienation, and the sub-culture that leads to the inevitable, heartbreaking, ending
A sharp, visceral, courageous and thoroughly original piece of fiction. I've never read anything like it
An utterly engrossing first novel. Its depiction of radicalisation as a desperate cry for belonging is simultaneously shocking and heart-breaking. A devastating portrait of contemporary London by a major new talent
England is Mine moves with verve and heart through territory too often neglected by the contemporary novel. As the precision-tooled plot hurtles towards disaster, Nicolas Padamsee guides us through the troubled hinterlands of wounded masculinity, gamer culture and the alt-right with thrilling pace and economy
Gripping, intelligent, streetwise and absolutely contemporary, England is Mine is a stunning first novel. It's a piercing depiction of online radicalisation that I sped through with appalled delight. Hard to think how it could be any more timely
A frightening journey into online radicalisation
A politically engaged, urgently plotted coming-of-age thriller with a wicked satirical streak