What's in a Name?

<p><b>''A brilliantly enlightening book . . . at times moving, at others ironic, full of insights and detail''</b><br><b>Michael Rosen</b><br><br><b>''A </b><b>kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK''</b><br><b><i>Irish Times</i><br></b><br>Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one''s parents. <br><br>In <i>What''s in a Name?</i>, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.<br><br>Blending history, memoir and politics, <i>What''s in a Name?</i> is a celebration of Britain''s rich multiculturalism, an ode to friendship and a testament t