The fourth fast-paced novel in the Nicky Burkett series, Hell on Hoe Street keeps up the page-turning action and deadpan humor in a multicultural tale of loyalty and revenge.All Nicky wants is a quiet
The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the nineteenth-century with the triumphant return of the freed slaves from America to Africa. Once back ?home,” however, these Americo-Liberians had to int
Set between London and Harare in the present day, the novel follows a group of quasi-revolutionaries who are fighting against Mugabe’s dictatorship and in favour of Socialist policies. It is a novel a
Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti, and that the New Dutch Republic is now under
When Ravi Kumar Mehra MA steps off the train at Victoria station, London in the autumn of 1962, he is fully equipped with the all-important work permit and a couple of pounds in his pocket. A brave ne
Meet Adele Vialli: 14 years old, a star footballer. With an aching heart and an impossible frenemy. She is intelligent, funny and resourceful, yet gets into fights all the time. She finds school bori
Karen think she’s not proper white. Her dad is Pakistani and her mother is white Christian, and somehow she feels as if she doesn’t quite fit in . . . anywhere. So she’s made a choice: she’s switching
A dazzling display of Qaisra Shahraz's masterful storytelling, this tantalizing collection features a mix of twelve stories from four continents. In "The Concubine," a lover's tale reveals the shamefu
Nicky Burkett is a small-time criminal. He doesn’t object to the adjective, because a small-time criminal is less likely to attract attention from people who object to the noun.But nothing seems to go
Waking up in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, 14-year-old Jamal tries to piece together what has happened whilst simultaneously trying to evade capture by the attackers. It soon becomes clear that
Leonard is sat on the substitutes’ bench, but never asked to play . . . and it’s not even as if the Ducie High football team is any good: they get beaten, time after time. Then everything changes. Aft
