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  • Cane Warriors

    A Novel

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history, paying homage to freedom fighters all over the world.Winner of a 2021 Young Quills Award for Best Historical Fiction"Wheatle brings the struggle of slavery in the Jamaican sugar cane fields to life . . . A refreshing and heartbreaking story that depicts both a real-life uprising against ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sufferah

    The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed author Alex Wheatle details how reggae music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse, imprisonment, and police brutality.—Selected for the In the Margins Book Awards 2024 Top Ten Title List and 2024 Nonfiction Recommendation List"In this inspiring, often harrowing narrative, the author chronicles how, shortly after he turned 3, he was ... Read more

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  • Kemosha of the Caribbean

    A Young Adult Novel

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailing to Panama with the legendary Captain Morgan.A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection"Inspired by accounts of women pirates, this fantastical tale represents the era's cruelty without romanticizing it. Kemosha's love and persistence combine with forceful action, the terror of ... Read more

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  • Home Girl

    A Novel

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns."Another powerful and poignant novel deftly created by one of the most prolific master novelists on either side of the pond. Home Girl is a page-turner, with not a dull moment. Loved it from the rooter to the tooter." —Eric Jerome Dickey, New York Times best-selling ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home Boys

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    'Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion with the full knowledge and understanding that change can only happen through words and actions' - Steve McQueenFour schoolchildren decide to run away from the the horrors of their everyday lives in a children's home. Seeking asylum in the woods, they enjoy the exhilaration of freedom and the first flush of adolescence. Yet the forest slowly ... Read more

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  • East of Acre Lane

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    ‘Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion’ Steve McQueen, director of Small AxeEast of Acre Lane is the fast-paced and razor sharp story of a young man trying to do the right thing from celebrated author Alex Wheatle, one of the figures who inspired Steve McQueen’s Small AxeIt is 1981, and Brixton is on the verge of exploding. Biscuit lives with his mother, brother and sister, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dirty South

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    Brixton, twenty years after the race riots. Teenager Dennis Huggins drifts into the easy, dangerous life of the shotta - or drug dealer - and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still.At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends drift through life with no positive influences or moral code; their ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Humiliations of Welton Blake

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    Hilarity follows disaster in this sharp-witted tale of the trials of pre-teen life, from award-winning and critically acclaimed Crongton author Alex Wheatle.Welton Blake has done it! He’s asked out Carmella McKenzie – the best-looking girl in school – and she’s only gone and said yes!But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton’s phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Liccle Bit

    Book 1: As seen on BBC iPlayer!

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    Series Book 1 - A Crongton Story
    What's worse than hiding a secret? Liccle Bit's about to find out...Venetia King is the hottest girl at school. Too bad Lemar is the second shortest guy in his year. Everyone calls him Liccle Bit, and his two best friends, McKay and Jonah, never tire of telling him he has no chance with girls. Things aren't much better at home. His mum is permanently hassled, his sister a frustrated single mum and ... Read more

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  • Kerb-Stain Boys

    The Crongton Broadway Robbery

    by Alex Wheatle, Ali Ardington ...
    Series series
    A sharp, witty and heartfelt tale of the ups and downs of teenage life on one of London's toughest (fictional) estates, from multi-award-winning Alex Wheatle.Life on the Crongton estate can be rough for Briggy. Dad's lost his job, Mum's working so hard to make ends meet, and big brother Kingsley just wants out. With all of the shouting and arguing it's difficult not to get lost in the mix. So when ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Crongton Knights

    Book 2 - Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    Series Book 2 - A Crongton Story
    Winner of the Guardian Children Fiction's Prize 2016Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2017Living on the South Crongton council estate has its worries - and life for McKay has been even tougher since his mum died.His dad has been working all hours to keep the bailiffs from their door.His brother is always out riding the streets at night, tempting trouble.And now, having strayed off his turf on a ... Read more

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  • Brixton Rock

    by Alex Wheatle ...
    "Pacey; witty; his characters are real and recognisable" LINTON KWESI JOHNSON"Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion with the full knowledge and understanding that change can only happen through words and actions" STEVE McQUEEN, director of Small AxeSouth London in the 1980s. Brenton Brown is a 16-year-old mixed-heritage boy who has lived in a children's home all his life. He has ... Read more

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