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Fire Rush
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
AvJacqueline Crooks
E-bok
Engelska, 2023
121 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt’s time to dance, to love, to be free…‘Mesmerising’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other‘Fabulous’ MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet‘Beautiful’ CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open WaterYamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes. Yamaye meets Moose, who she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.After their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that leads her to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR’S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZE 2024A SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A wonderfully literary, musical and original novel about a culture and era that rarely makes the pages of fiction’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT‘Scorching… We follow Yamaye through love, loss and peril, as she chases her dreams and connects with her heritage’ GUARDIAN‘Ambitious, atmospheric… A novel of passion and anger’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A rich and rhythmic story about love and music’ iNEWS
Fire Rush
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
AvJacqueline Crooks
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2023
185 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin.London, 1978. Yamaye, a woman in her 20s unsure of who she is, but with dreams of being a DJ and MC. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised.Everything changes when she falls deeply in love with Moose: he offers the chance of freedom and change. When their relationship is cut brutally short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol, where she gets caught up in a criminal gang, and then to Jamaica, where past and present collide with devastating consequences.© Jacqueline Crooks 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Fire Rush
AvJacqueline Crooks
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
135 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt’s time to dance, to love, to be free…‘Mesmerising’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other‘Fabulous’ MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet‘Beautiful’ CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open WaterYamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes. Yamaye meets Moose, who she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.After their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that leads her to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR’S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE PAUL TORDAY PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZE 2024A SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A wonderfully literary, musical and original novel about a culture and era that rarely makes the pages of fiction’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT‘Scorching… We follow Yamaye through love, loss and peril, as she chases her dreams and connects with her heritage’ GUARDIAN‘Ambitious, atmospheric… A novel of passion and anger’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A rich and rhythmic story about love and music’ iNEWS
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Sky City
The dazzling new novel from the Women s Prize-shortlisted author of Fire Rush
AvJacqueline Crooks
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
324 kr
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Three lives are brought together by chance in 90s London, in this spellbinding story of friendship and loneliness, healing and redemption*Guardian book to read 2026*'Visceral, shocking, moving - Jacqueline Crooks proves yet again that she is an absolutely fantastic writer' Bernardine Evaristo'Hypnotically beautiful' Louise KennedyJaycee finally has a room of her own in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But her troubled childhood continues to haunt her. When an old classmate, Sol, reappears, he seems to offer her a lifeline. Sol was her first love, and the only person who looked out for Jaycee when they were kids. Can she trust him now?Her best friend is Ella-G, who left for the glamorous music scene in New York. When Jaycee finds a rare record that seems to lead to Ella-G’s father, the two women go searching for answers in Atlantic City. But what Jaycee encounters there forces her to confront the traumas of her own past. Back in London, can Jaycee, Sol and Ella-G find justice and healing, even as their worlds threaten to crash together and splinter apart?'Poetic, truthful and powerful' Diana Evans'A lyrical hymn to London’s overlooked places of sanctuary' Hannah Lowe'Jacqueline Crooks is the rare groove of literature' Afua Hirsch'An exhilarating, compelling story that goes deep into the self, and what it is to feel human' Priscilla Morris
Fire Rush
AvJacqueline Crooks
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
187 kr
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Fire Rush
AvJacqueline Crooks
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
151 kr
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A debut about dub reggae, love, loss and freedom, Fire Rush is an electrifying state-of-the-nation novel and an unforgettable portrait of Black womanhood.Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised. A young woman unsure of her future, the sound is her guide - a chance to discover who she really is in the rhythms of those smoke-filled nights. In the dance-hall darkness, dub is the music of her soul, her friendships, her ancestry.But everything changes when she meets Moose, the man she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.When their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol - where she is caught up in a criminal gang and the police riots sweeping the country - and then to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.'This book has it all ... Set in London in the late 70s amongst clubs and dub music, you're immersed into something really special''Yamaye is a fantastic central protagonist and narrator ... This novel takes you on an emotional and unforgettable journey' 'I will be recommending it to everyone' 'A phenomenal debut novel' 'A stunning debut novel ... as relevant to today's racial climate as the 1970s ... it felt musical, with dub music almost a secondary character in the novel'
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Sky City
AvJacqueline Crooks
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
232 kr
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Three lives are brought together by chance in 90s London, in this spellbinding story of friendship and loneliness, healing and redemption*Guardian book to read 2026*'Visceral, shocking, moving - Jacqueline Crooks proves yet again that she is an absolutely fantastic writer' Bernardine Evaristo'Hypnotically beautiful' Louise KennedyJaycee finally has a room of her own in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But her troubled childhood continues to haunt her. When an old classmate, Sol, reappears, he seems to offer her a lifeline. Sol was her first love, and the only person who looked out for Jaycee when they were kids. Can she trust him now?Her best friend is Ella-G, who left for the glamorous music scene in New York. When Jaycee finds a rare record that seems to lead to Ella-G’s father, the two women go searching for answers in Atlantic City. But what Jaycee encounters there forces her to confront the traumas of her own past. Back in London, can Jaycee, Sol and Ella-G find justice and healing, even as their worlds threaten to crash together and splinter apart?'Poetic, truthful and powerful' Diana Evans'A lyrical hymn to London’s overlooked places of sanctuary' Hannah Lowe'Jacqueline Crooks is the rare groove of literature' Afua Hirsch'An exhilarating, compelling story that goes deep into the self, and what it is to feel human' Priscilla Morris
Ice Migration
AvJacqueline Crooks
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
136 kr
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Ice Migration
AvJacqueline Crooks
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
100 kr
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The stories in this collection move around in time and place, but linked by the experiences of the descendants of a Jamaican family of mixed Indian and African heritage.From Roaring River in rural Jamaica in 1908 where the descendants of African slaves make connections with new arrivals from Calcutta to work in the sugar cane fields, to Southall in 2013, where the Millers live alongside newer migrants from India, The Ice Migration is a poetic exploration of movement as central to the human condition, from the ancestors of the vanished Tainos in Jamaica who crossed the Behring Straits 40,000 years ago, who linger in spirit, to Tutus who is driven to separation from her family, to the constancy of moving on and ultimately return to Roaring River. The people of Jacqueline Crooks'' stories are deeply enmeshed in their African/Indian Jamaican world of dreams, visions, duppies and spiritual presences that connect them across time and place. What they discover beyond the strangeness of change of place and the hostilities they encounter is that life remains defined by its common crises – of birth, the complications of sexuality, sickness, old age, and death – and the comforts of food, stories and memory.
Ismigrationen
AvJacqueline Crooks
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
219 kr
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Berättelserna i denna bok följer en familjs rörelser i världen under fyra generationer. De geografiska förflyttningarna, kasttillhörigheten som skakas av, fattigdomen och det hårda arbetet som förföljer dem. Jacqueline Crooks tecknar med ömhet och poetisk precision en berättelse om överlevnad. Hon fyller sidorna med minnen och spöken. Klargör smärtan i de koloniala och postkoloniala orättvisorna. De djupa såren hos en familj som letar efter mening i sitt adopterade hem – från kullarna i Roaring River på Jamaica till den brittiska förstaden Southall. Karaktärerna i berättelserna är präglade av den jamaicanska historien – det afrikanska, det indiska och av andevärlden som binder samman tiden som varit med den som är.

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