Alex Wheatle

Home Boys

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by personal experience, a powerful, moving and beautifully structured novel dealing with the lives of children in care, from award-winning author Alex Wheatle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9781529429336
• ISBN-10: 1529429331
• Artikelnr.: 65689522

Autorenporträt

Alex Wheatle is the author of several acclaimed novels, many of them inspired by experiences from his childhood. He was born in Brixton to Jamaican parents, and spent most of his childhood in a Surrey children's home. Following a short stint in prison following the Brixton uprising of 1981, he wrote poems and lyrics and became known as the Brixtonbard. Alex has been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Carnegie Medal and the YA Book Prize. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and was awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2008.