If you liked Shappi Khorsandi’s A Beginner’s Guide to Acting English...

Marjane Satrapi: Perspolis
In Perspolis, a graphic autobiography, fellow Iranian and favourite of Shappi Khorsandi, Marjane Satrapi also remembers growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution. The daughter of a pair of revolutionary Marxists, Satrapi depicts with magical illustrations an adolescence in which Iraqi scud missiles bombard Iranian cities, Kim Wilde posters are forbidden and yet a sense of normality is retained by her loving family.

Meera Syal: Anita And Me
In Anita And Me, Meera Syal has written an autobiographical novel about a young girl coming of age in the only Punjabi family in a Midlands mining village in the 1960s. Caught between two very different cultures, both on the verge of dramatic change, Syal humorously captures the innocent, uncomplicated outlook on life of a nine-year-old child struggling with divided loyalties and yearning to fit in.