Bageye At The Wheel

Author : Colin Grant
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448182626

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Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant Pdf

A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. 'This book is a classic' Sunday Telegraph To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight's, he is always known as Bageye. There aren't very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather there: Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots - each has his nickname. Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school and she will not settle for anything less. This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of his ten-year-old son. It’s a wry and gentle comedy about unfulfilling day jobs and late night poker games, of illegal mini-cabs and small-scale drug-dealing. And it is also about a family struggling to belong in post-Windrush Britain and growing up in a vanished world of 1970s suburbia. LOOK OUT FOR COLIN GRANT'S NEW BOOK: Homecoming - the first oral history of the Windrush generation

Author : Janice Maxwell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329113718

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Jamaican Diaspora: Athlete Edition by Janice Maxwell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943214

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Colin Grant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195393095

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Negro with a Hat by Colin Grant Pdf

Examines the life of the black leader who started the Back-to-Africa movement in the United States, believing blacks would never receive justice in countries with a white majority.

Author : Colin Grant
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 009959787X

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A Smell of Burning by Colin Grant Pdf

One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again. Christopher was diagnosed with epilepsy. A Smell of Burning tells the remarkable story of this strange and misunderstood disorder. How certain people, at a particular moment in their life, start to suffer seizures, often preceded by an aura, of which a smell of burning is one of the most common. For many years epilepsy was associated with mental illness or even possession by devils. People with epilepsy were forbidden to marry or have children. Many became victims of Nazi eugenics programmes. To this day many people with epilepsy - sixty million worldwide - still live in fear of exposure. Grant's book traces the history of the condition and the pioneering doctors whose extraordinary breakthroughs finally helped gain an understanding of how the brain works. He tells the stories of famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vincent Van Gogh, and through the tragic tale of his brother, he considers the effect of epilepsy on his own life.

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1905881193

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Going Back by John Freeman Pdf

Richard Russoreturns home to a hometown on the verge of extinction. Up-and-coming fiction writerClaire Vaye Watkinsexplores a damaged car on an abandoned road and a Ziploc bag of pristine letters.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieshows what happens when a married man’s old flame threatens to return to Lagos. A youngIris Murdochwrites devotional letters to the older French Surrealist and Oulipo co-founder Raymond Queneau.Hal Crowtherdelivers a blistering critique of the Internet’s erosion of solitude. With extracts fromMark Twain’s never-before published memoir on childhood andColin Grant’s highly anticipated memoirBageye at the Wheel; new poetry fromSeamus Heaney,Adrienne Rich, andNicholas Christopher; and a photographic essay byIan Teh. Further works includeElizabeth McCracken's stirring tale of a young widower and the traces we leave behind;Leila Aboulela’s story of an aspiring Sudanese academic’s return to London with his young Muslim wife; foreign correspondentJanine Di Giovanni’s return to Sarajevo to search for a boy she knew fifteen years ago;Peter Orner’s examination of the question ‘When does a place become something else?’ in Chappaquiddick; andJoseph O’Neillon the breaking of America.

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822372936

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Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall Pdf

"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. With great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain. Full of passion and wisdom, Familiar Stranger is the intellectual memoir of one of our greatest minds.

Author : Margo Jefferson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101870648

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Negroland by Margo Jefferson Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.” Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland’s pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs—a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and “the masses of Negros,” and where the motto was “Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.” Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments—the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literature
ISBN : MINN:31951P01130076D

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The Granta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Colin Grant
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1784709131

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Homecoming by Colin Grant Pdf

'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their own words, we witness the transition from the optimism of the first post-war arrivals to the race riots of the late 1950s. We hear from nurses in Manchester; bus drivers in Bristol; seamstresses in Birmingham; teachers in Croydon; dockers in Cardiff; inter-racial lovers in High Wycombe, and Carnival Queens in Leeds. These are stories of hope and regret, of triumphs and challenges, brimming with humour, anger and wisdom. Together, they reveal a rich tapestry of Caribbean British lives. Homecoming is an unforgettable portrait of a generation, which brilliantly illuminates an essential and much-misunderstood chapter of our history. ** A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week** **A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year**

Author : Luke Scull
Publisher : Ace
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425264874

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Sword of the North by Luke Scull Pdf

"As Davarus Cole and his former companions were quick to discover, the White Lady's victorious liberation of Dorminia has not resulted in the freedom they once imagined. Anyone perceived as a threat has been seized and imprisoned or exiled to darker regions leaving the White Lady's rule unchallenged and absolute. But the White Lady would be wiser not to spurn her former supporters, Eremul the Halfmage has learned of a race of immortals known as the Fade, and if he cannot convince the White Lady of their existence, all of humanity will be in danger. Far to the north, Brodar Kayne and Jerek the Wolf continue their odyssey to the High Fangs, only to find themselves caught in a war between a demon horde and their enemy of old, the Shaman and in the wondrous city of Thelassa, Sasha must overcome demons of her own"--

Author : Henry Beard,Douglas C. Kenney
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Satire, American
ISBN : 0785727981

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Bored of the Rings by Henry Beard,Douglas C. Kenney Pdf

Author : Gabriel Gbadamosi
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846591471

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Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi Pdf

1970s London: Young Michael runs past the railway arches and terraces of Vauxhall. Reaching the street on which he lives, he witnesses a young girl fall from a window, her sari floating down behind her. Her lifeless body lies crumpled on the ground. This incident marks the beginning of a period in which Michael's life threatens to unravel. From his sister's taunts to a series of house fires, police harassment, his parents' crumbling marriage and the realisation that the council intends to clear out the slum he calls home, he learns to navigate his way through an array of obstacles, big and small. An extraordinary debut novel, Vauxhall tells a warm and hopeful story of a young boy and the city that surrounds him. 'A tenderly observed, fascinating portrait of a childhood in South London, as it moves from post-war darkness into an uncertain new era.' Blake Morrison, author of South of the River. -- 'Only a poet could have written Vauxhall - clean, swift and with flashes of lightning' Bonnie Greer. -- 'Immediately appealing, this is quite an odyssey through the maelstrom that London was in the 1970s. A remarkable achievement' Brian Chikwava

Author : Laura Whateley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780008308322

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Money: A User’s Guide by Laura Whateley Pdf

Take control of your personal finances with this concise, timely and indispensable guide, from acclaimed money expert Laura Whateley.

Author : Katie Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857077141

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The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies Pdf

A very natural and honest version of life's events from the perspective of a young girl - from her suspicions about her neighbours, to her rocky friendship with the girl next door; from the sudden death of her beloved granny to her relentless quest for a pet hamster, only to then find it mysteriously slaughtered - which kickstarts a local investigation of 'suspects'.