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Alex Wheatle
In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle shows how music became his salvation
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WELCOME TO CRONGTON, WHERE YOUR LOYALTY AND WITS WILL BE TESTED ... Enter for angst, fierce friendships and edge-of-your-seat drama.
'A gripping tale of family and friends, love and loyalty'…
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The Crongton Knights are back, facing more daring drama in the final book in Alex Wheatle's award-winning series
Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history, paying homage to freedom fighters all over the world.
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From the acclaimed author of Liccle Bit and Crongton Knights, comes another story from the fictional South Crong council estate.
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A morally challenging story of complex families and forbidden love - the sequel to the acclaimed novel BRIXTON ROCK
Inspired by personal experience, a powerful, moving and beautifully structured novel dealing with the lives of children in care, from award-winning author Alex Wheatle.
Brixton Rock is the powerfully explosive debut of one of the UK’s finest writers
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
Dennis Huggins drifts into the dangerous life of drug dealer and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still…
To tell the truth? Or protect his family?
Cornell is having a bad time. Kicked out of secondary school for a fight he didn’t start, he finds himself in a…
From the acclaimed author of Liccle Bit, comes another story from the South Crong council estate in inner city London.
In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailing to Panama with the legendary Captain Morgan.
In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle shows how music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse and his imprisonment as a young man protesting against systemic…
From the author of the celebrated Crongton books, comes a fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic and courageous story about a teenage girl growing up fast in the care system. It…
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This thought provoking and inspiring true story by one of Britain’s most popular Black British authors is sure to engage both teenagers and adults who are working to improve their…
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In the village of Claremont, Jamaica, no one knows a thing about Joseph’s past. Why did he just appear in the middle of the night offering himself as a labourer…
‘A vivid and powerful story … Another tour de force by Alex Wheatle, a truly gifted storyteller’ David Olusoga
Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery…
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Hilarity follows disaster in this sharp-witted tale of the trials of pre-teen life, from award-winning and critically acclaimed ‘Crongton’ author Alex Wheatle.
WELCOME TO CRONGTON, WHERE YOUR LOYALTY AND WITS WILL BE TESTED ... Enter for angst, fierce friendships and edge-of-your-seat drama. Winner of the Guardian Children Fiction's Prize 2016.
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018.
She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and…
East of Acre Lane is the fast-paced and razor sharp story of a young man trying to do the right thing and establishes Alex Wheatle as the exciting new voice…
Briggy, Caldonia, and Terror need to get rich quick in this hilarious and heartfelt ‘Crongton Noir’ from best-selling author Alex Wheatle.
