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Amma är en radikal pjäsförfattare som i medelåldern ser sin karriär ta fart. Nu ska hon sätta upp en pjäs på National Theatre, ett genombrott som förunnats få svarta dramatiker. I publiken sitter gamla vänner och partners, var och en med sin egen ...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER *One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade* This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twe...

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Treat yourself to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo, part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics 'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any ti...

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Amma är en radikal pjäsförfattare som i medelåldern ser sin karriär ta fart. Nu ska hon sätta upp en pjäs på National Theatre, ett genombrott som förunnats få svarta dramatiker. I publiken sitter gamla vänner och partners, var och en med sin egen ...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER*One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade*This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentie...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERIt's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.The boy's mother wonders ...

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Amma är en radikal pjäsförfattare som i medelåldern ser sin karriär ta fart. Nu ska hon sätta upp en pjäs på National Theatre, ett genombrott som förunnats få svarta dramatiker. I publiken sitter gamla vänner och partners, var och en med sin egen ...

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Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman: "Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people". (Dawn). French Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A...

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Amma är en radikal pjäsförfattare som i medelåldern ser sin karriär ta fart. Nu ska hon sätta upp en pjäs på National Theatre, ett genombrott som förunnats få svarta dramatiker. I publiken sitter gamla vänner och partners, var och en med sin egen ...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER 'Evaristo possesses enough ball-busting originality to create whole novels for each of the historical characters she resurrects . . . [she creates] funky yarns so tantalising you want to d...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's mother wonder...

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A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island'When I step...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Evaristo possesses enough ball-busting originality to create whole novels for each of the historical characters she resurrects . . . [she creates] funky yarns so tantalising you want to de...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERWINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and AutumnA coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with la...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and s...

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The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine EvaristoBernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After...

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This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. It is an adapted version of the original story. This story is a powerful novel abou...

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This ELT Graded Reader is made for people learning English as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for an easier read. It is an adapted version of the original story.This story is a powerful novel about...

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OUT NOW AS A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING LENNIE JAMES A moving and funny novel about an exuberant, closeted family man living as himself for the first time in over 60 years, from the Booker-prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. ***Ba...

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER 'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled...

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A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their post-war freedom 'Remarkable' David DabydeenIn the years just after the American revolution, London was the unlikely refuge for...

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'Impressive and unique. As relevant today as it was over two decades ago' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionA gripping, propulsive courtroom thriller following barrister Lee Mitchell as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely r...

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A groundbreaking novel exploring the intersection between race, class and mental health in the UK'A strong and humane work of fiction' Jackie Kay'That is the glory of being a mental patient. Nothing is impossible.'It is the 1990s, and Gloria is li...

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WINNER OF THE SAGA PRIZE 1997: a literary award for trailblazing new Black British novelists'A quietly outstanding work of fiction . . . an exemplary novel' Bernardine Evaristo A shattering portrayal of family, guilt and unshakable bonds as a fami...

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The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted exploration of class was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK'A novel written nearly a hundred years ago that brings the past ...

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A sensational, original thriller that examines the powerful link between identity, sacrifice and possession, and questions our compulsive need to chase after ambitions that leave devastation in their wakeUniversity lecturer Gus knows that stealing...

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