The European Tribe, by Caryl Phillips

Writing about a Europe he feels both part of and separate from, Caryl Phillips explores the discomforts of exile, the meaning of citizenship and the limitations of geography. In a series of fascinating snapshots - part travelogue, part utobiography, part polemic - he gives us a moving and subtle account of an exploration of the heart and mind, and of Europe today.

'Caryl Phillips' Grand Tour has a serious purpose which is accomplished with elegance, wit and biting anti-racist polemic... incredibly readable and at times very, if painfully, funny.' New Statesman and Society