Tolerant, funny and real, [the narrator] ducks and dives hedonistically, lazily, gunning out x-ray observations about masculinity, models and 'the magic of miscegenation' that would have had Oscar Wilde licking his lips' Vogue á

Bhupinder 'Puppy' Singh Johal - handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised - has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society. When sloaney rich-girl Sophie, falls for him, he grabs the chance to escape his past and pursue the woman of his dreams, the voluptuous sophisticate Sarupa, who happens to be engaged to Sophie's cousin. Using whatever and whoever he can, Puppy explores the grit and glamour of a city seething with the possibilities and politics of money, race and sex: an incendiary cocktail that explodes, changing him and those closest to him forever...

Set in the long hot summer of 2002, Tourism is a filthy, unflinching and politically incorrect take on modern Britain.

á An enjoyably bumptious coming of age novel Richard Godwiná Literary Review

One of my favourite books of the year...This is going to be huge...I loved it Sarah Broadhurstá The Bookseller

The best debut novel I have ever read - monumentally sexy, seriously shocking and touched with genius' Julie Burchillá