Nicolas Padamsee | England is Mine

Named one of the Observer’s best new novelists for 2024, ***Nicolas Padamsee*** will be heading to Hot Box to talk about his brilliant coming-of-age thriller.

England is Mine is an urgent debut which takes the reader on a frightening journey into online radicalisation and extremism.

**England is Mine**

- **An Observer Best Debut Novel 2024**

- **Nominated for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize**

- **'Devastating and deeply astute' GUARDIAN**

- **'A debut of subtle intelligence and artistry' FINANCIAL TIMES**

- **'Darkly humorous and highly topical' SPECTATOR**

- **'A brilliant dissection of race, identity, masculinity and extremism' MONICA ALI**

- **'Heartbreaking and perceptive' PETER DOHERTY, THE LIBERTINES**

In an East London borough, two second-generation immigrants search for a sense of identity and belonging amid a wave of online radicalisation and extremism. College student David survives through music and multiplayer video games. Attacked by his classmates for the controversial on-stage comments of his musical idol Karl Williams, he retreats into an online world of far-right ideologies and toxic masculinity. Hassan, too, is alienated from his friends, who drink, smoke weed and mock his volunteer work at the local mosque. As the young men struggle to find a path through a hostile-seeming world, their fates become tragically, catastrophically intertwined.

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