What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain

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.>

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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.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Grant
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.06.2026
• EAN: 9781787333161
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-316-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sociology, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, British & Irish history, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social groups, communities and identities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Diversity & Multiculturalism