Home Girl Av Alex Wheatle

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.

<p>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 racism and police brutality.<br><br><b>"Alex...

"A rich layering of motive and emotion . . . robust dialogue, streetwise humour and muscular, mischievous vernaculour" Independent<BR/><BR/> Set on the streets of Brixton, south London, BRENTON BROWN is a fatal love story about a...

"Pacy; witty; his characters are real and recognisable" LINTON KWESI JOHNSON<BR/><BR/>"Alex Wheatle is the real deal; he writes with heart and authenticity, books that make you laugh and worry and cry and hold your breath"...