This land is our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto By Suketu Mehta (Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape London, R599)

This book is not about the fast-vanishing Bombay or the new and enticing Mumbai that Mehta captured in his bestselling non-fiction, Maximum City. This collection of essays, which is split into four parts—The Migrants Our Coming, Why They're Coming, Why They're Feared and Why They Should Be Welcomed—hopes to discuss the complexities of global migration, which Mehta says is "personal for me". "Whether you believe in open borders, closed borders or something in between, I hope that this book will generate empathy and understanding for those who have to cross them. The heart should have no borders," he writes in his Preface. For the times that we are living in, this one will strike a chord.