Bageye at the Wheel - A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia

Informationen zum Autor 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. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning , 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 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Grant
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.04.2013
• EAN: 9780099552390
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955239-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Berkshire, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to Black British people, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Black & Asian Studies