Bageye at the Wheel
A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia
$33.46
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2013
Summary
In the tradition of Sam Selvon’s Lonely Londoners and V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street, Grant’s Bageye at the Wheel does for Luton and the UK what Miguel Street did for Naipaul, Port of Spain and Trinidad.
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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099552390 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099552396 |
| Author: | Colin Grant |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 203g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
I loved every word
I loved every word * Independent *
[A] vivid and bittersweet window into a vanished world of 1970s suburbia * Metro *
A quietly unforgettable book * Guardian *
A fabulous example of storytelling * Glasgow Herald *
A classic * Spectator *
Colin Grant’s memoir focuses on his feckless father…but tells the wider story of growing up black in Luton in 1970s suburbia – Antonia Charlesworth * Big Issue in the North *
Piquant memoir – Benjamin Evans * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Colin Grant
Colin Grant is an author, historian, and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey.
- Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize.
- A Smell of Burning, his history of epilepsy, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year.
- Homecoming - Voices of the Windrush Generation was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
- His most recent book, I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be, was a New Statesman Book of the Year.
He is director of WritersMosaic, a division of the RLF, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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