Nadifa Mohamed - The Fortune Men (Readers and Writers Festival)

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Cost: Free Neighbourhood: Lambeth wide Category:
  • Reading and writing

Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer.

So, when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served.

Join Nadifa to discuss her fantastic new novel.