Robert Wilson is an aimless, chronically untruthful young Englishman who has passed himself off as a Muslim, in order to secure a job at the newly established Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys’ Day School. East of Wimbledon is the hilarious story of Mr Wilson’s decline and fall, as he demonstrates the failure of a post-colonial Briton to understand another great imperial culture that has absolutely no need of him.
Reviews
Screamingly funny
Williams has taken the suburban comic novel to heights of which it can never have dreamed.
A cleverly plotted, wildly funny plea for common sense [that] makes you laugh out aloud on nearly every page.