Sathnam Sanghera Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Sathnam Sanghera is a published best-selling author and British journalist.

Born in 1976 to Indian Punjabi parents in Wolverhamptom, Sathnam has always had enough inspriation to become an author. His parents emigrated to the U.K.. in 1968 from India. Sathnam was raised a Sikh.

He went to Wolverhampton Grammar School, funded by the Assisted Places Scheme of the government. He attended Christ’s College in Cambridge and graduated in 1998 with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature.

Before Sathnam Sanghera became an author, he worked many different jobs. These include working at a hospital laundry, a burger chain, a sewing factory, a market research film, and a literacy project in New York.

While a student, he worked at the Express and Star in Wolverhampton. He also dressed up to become a ‘news bunny’ for ‘L!VE TV’. He was a reporter and a feature writer for the Financial Times from 1998 to 2006. He would join The Times in 2007 as a columnist and feature writer.

He also writes a motoring column for Management Today Magazine. He wrote his memoir titled The Boy with the Topknot, which got adapted in 2017 for BBC Two.

Sathnam Sanghera also published his novel Marriage Material in 2013, which was partly inspired by The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2016. His documentary about race on Channel 4, Empire State of Mind, got a four star review in The Guardian. He resides in north London.

Sathnam Sanghera’s first memoir was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Biography award and the 2009 PEN/Ackerley Prize. It was picked as the 2009 Mind Book of the Year. His book Marriage Material has also received accolades. It was shortlisted for a 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award as well as a 2013 Costa Book Award. He has also been longlisted for the 2014 Desmond Elliot Prize and is being developed into a multi-part television drama by Kudos.

Sathnam has also received various degrees for his journalism. He was given the Newspaper Feature of the Year by the 2005 Workworld Media Awards, Article of the Year from the 2005 management Today Writing Awards, and the HR Journalist of the Year in the 2006 and 2009 Watson Wyatt Awards for Excellence. In 2002, he received the honor of being titled Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

Sanghera has also received many other accolades. This includes an honorary degree of Doctor or Letters from The University of Wolverhampton in 2009 for services to journalism and a President’s Medal in 20110 from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. GQ Magazine picked him as one of the “Men of Next 25 Years” in 2013. He is a trustee and a board chair for the charity Creative Access and resides in London.

The Boy with the Topknot was first released in hardback under the title If You Don’t Know Me By Now. If you love a good memoir, be sure to check this one out!

The year is 1979, and the author is 3 years old. His breakfast ritual involves his mother combing his hair, which he has to sit down on the floral-patterned settee and learn forward, like he is preparing himself for execution.

Growing up in Wolverhampton in the 80’s was a confusing time. There were George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas was playing on television, and if he was lucky the occasional Bounty Bar. Then he had his tartan smocks wardrobe, his job at the local sewing factor for 30 p an hour, and the ongoing challenge of how to get the perfect top-knot.

Then he has his family, until he makes a discovery at 24 years old that changes everything that he knows about them. Now he goes on a journey to the past, trying to figure out a life among secrets. Read this book to find out more!

Marriage Material is the first fictional novel from Sathnam Sanghera. If you have been looking for an interesting new read, check this book out!

If you’ve gone to Bains Stores recently, you might find that the shop closed in 1994. With just an advertisement for a chocolate bar that’s discontinued, you find that your hesitation for approaching the store is valid.

Arjan Banga is coming back to the Black Country after his father unexpectedly passed away. The lethargic pace of life in his family’s corner shop represents all that he’s tried to leave behind.

When his mother insists that they keep the shop open, he feels himself gradually pulled back and forced into large decisions about his marriage in London as well as finding out secrets about his broken family. Read this book to absorb it all and experience an exciting fresh new voice in fiction!