The Colour of Home

One of the best political memoirs I’ve read in years… His prose is endlessly evocative… Excellent – Patrick Maguire * The Times *
Gripping … enjoyable – Amol Rajan * BBC Today Programme *
A remarkable story of resilience and ambition, brimming with love for his family * Sunday Times *
An intimate, and sometimes moving, family portrait as well as a social history of race, class and aspiration in late 20th-century Britain * Guardian *
Recalls the boisterous fiction of Hanif Kureishi… Javid displays in the book a vivid way of nailing down personality on the page and has an eye for the piquantly absurd * The Telegraph *
Crammed with incident - arranged marriages, savage beatings, boys behaving badly. I never imagined it would make me blub * Guardian *
Clear-eyed and surprisingly tender… Touching on poverty, alienation and ambition, it frames his rise not as triumphalism but as a message to outsiders to keep going * iNews *
Javid’s memoir should make all Britons proud… an absorbing saga of a migrant family’s physical, mental and emotional passage, a touching love story, a riotous adventure about a British Pakistani boy from the margins who got to the very centre of political power, and a tale of redemption * The i Paper *
This is a memoir unlike anything you will read from a politician. Sajid Javid tells his story with eloquence and wit * Alan Johnson *
Striking, surprising, brutally honest - a powerful portrait of a remarkable man and historical change * Rory Stewart *
A gripping and unique coming-of-age story which is both a slice of British history and a warning about what, if we are divided against ourselves again, could be be coming. Funny, addictive and moving * Andrew Marr *
A startling memoir that screams with authenticity. Sajid was just another kid on the block, doing daily battle with his family’s culture and this country’s open hostility until he decided to break out of the box. When it doesn’t leave you wriggling in outrage, it will drench you in tears and laughter. The finale is heart-wrenching * Michael Dobbs *
An important and deeply moving story of one man’s origins, and the Britain he has known * Mishal Husain *
Inspirational… Javid writes powerfully about overcoming adversity * Observer *

Sajid Javid was a Member of the British Parliament from May 2010 to July 2024. He served in the Cabinet of three Prime Ministers as the Secretary of State for six different Departments, including the Home Office and Treasury, most recently serving as the Secretary of State for Health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sajid has now returned to the business world and also serves as Chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

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