Island Songs

Informationen zum Autor Alex Wheatle MBE was born in South London in 1963 and is an accomplished and award-winning author of more than a dozen books, including children's and young adult novels. The story of his teenage years was the basis of Steve McQueen's "Alex Wheatle" in the Small Axe series (December 2020), and he has written and performed a play about his life titled Uprising . His novels for adults include the Windrush classic Island Songs , as well as Brixton Rock , Brenton Brown, East of Acre Lane, and Home Boys. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio and film. Klappentext A hauntingly beautiful novel of twentieth-century Jamaica and the Windrush generation's settlement in the UK. Vorwort A hauntingly beautiful novel of twentieth-century Jamaica and the Windrush generation's settlement in the UK. Zusammenfassung A hauntingly beautiful novel of twentieth-century Jamaica and the Windrush generation's settlement in the UK.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Wheatle
• Publisher: Arcadia Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.09.2022
• EAN: 9781529422597
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-2259-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Jamaica, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Caribbean islands, Migration, immigration & emigration, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Modern and contemporary fiction