Twenty-two authors of postcolonial London fiction are discussed in this study. It is not only London and their writing about London that connects them. They all share a past that has been influenced by (post)colonialism - some of these writers, like Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul, immigrated to England when they were young, while others have a parent or parents or even grand-parents that came to London to find a better life. Some, like Hanif Kureishi, were born and bred in England and have never been exposed to an immigrant community. Yet all these twenty-two authors that are included in this study are commonly seen - by critics and scholars alike - as postcolonial authors, immigrant writers or diaspora writers.
