Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant
Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school and she will not settle for anything less. This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of his ten-year-old son.
I loved every word * Independent *
[A] vivid and bittersweet window into a vanished world of 1970s suburbia * Metro *
A quietly unforgettable book * Guardian *
A fabulous example of storytelling * Glasgow Herald *
A classic * Spectator *
[A] vivid and bittersweet window into a vanished world of 1970s suburbia * Metro *
A quietly unforgettable book * Guardian *
A fabulous example of storytelling * Glasgow Herald *
A classic * Spectator *
Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. His most recent book, I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic, a division of the RLF, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099552390 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099552396 |
| Title | Bageye at the Wheel |
| Author | Colin Grant |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for PEN/ Ackerley Prize 2013 (UK) |
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