ALEX JENNINGS

White Teeth is still one of the most talked-about fictional debuts of recent years. Meet the Joneses and the Iqbals, two families brought together by friendship, tangled histories and the London suburb of Willesden Green... White Teeth deals with - among many other things - friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle.