A Home of One's Own - Out 1 September 2022

bbc radio 4 book of the week: People Like US - listen here

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"An extraordinary memoir-cum-polemic, beautifully written and powerfully argued, People Like Us is essential reading, expertly challenging the stories we tell ourselves about social mobility in the twenty first century."

The Secret Barrister

“A forensic analysis of inequality in the UK today”

New Statesman

‘Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country. Beautifully written, People Like Us makes a deeply personal case for a world in which anybody can reach success, but doesn't have to leave a part of themselves behind to achieve it.’

DAVID LAMMY MP

“Even those who do not daily rub up against British class distinctions will find Mohamed’s achievements extraordinary.”

Financial Times

‘A vital work of courage and hope, by a truly remarkable individual’.

PHILIPPE SANDS QC, author of East West Street

“This rags-to-riches tale is related with humility and humour”

The Times

“[An] ambitious and far-ranging attempt to rethink the whole stalled project of social mobility”

Observer

‘I found myself nodding in agreement with every word of People Like Us. Hashi Mohamed has written a moving, shocking and clear-eyed account of the increasingly rare phenomenon of social mobility. Using his own extraordinary story as a spine he has written an analysis, how-to-guide and polemic on getting on and up in Britain today.'

GRAYSON PERRY

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Press & Media

Hashi Mohamed: social mobility can work: Sathnam Sanghera interviews Hashi Mohamed (The Times)

People Like Us by Hashi Mohamed review— room at the top? Not now - (The Times)

People Like Us by Hashi Mohamed review - ‘a case of evolve or die’ - (The Sunday Times)

‘Social mobility only works for a tiny few’: an extract from People Like Us by Hashi Mohamed (The Observer)

Raising the bar: Hashi Mohamed’s journey from child refugee to top lawyer: an interview (The Observer)

People Like Us - how to vault across Britain’s class divide - (Financial Times)

What Westminster gets wrong about social mobility - (Prospect Magazine)

People Like Us: A journey though “social mobility” from child asylum seeker to barrister - (New Statesman)

Strong mentors helped me go from being a child refugee to a barrister — young people need tough love - (The Independent)

‘A book full of hope’ - (Waterstones Review)

Mohamed lays waste to the idea of a meritocratic Bar in his book People Like Us (Counsel Magazine)

Radio & Podcasts

Adventures in Social Mobility - BBC Radio 4

Robert Elms - live on BBC Radio London

Politics Live with Jo Coburn - BBC Two

Start the Week - live on BBC Radio 4

Sunday Morning - BBC Radio Scotland

Full Disclosure: with James O’Brien

Intelligence Squared Podcast with Razia Iqbal