No Place to Call Home by Katharine Quarmby
The shocking, poignant story of rejection, eviction and the fight for a home‘Katharine Quarmby does an excellent job of teasing out the many nuances [of the situation for Gypsies and Travellers]… it is essential reading for anyone who wants to get beyond the flippant, homogenising headlines’
* Literary Review *'Meticulously researched… necessary and timely'
* The Tablet *‘With a keen sense of compassion and unwavering frankness, Katharine Quarmby breaks through rigid stereotypes and leads us into the communities that have remained for so long without a voice of their own.’
-- Oksana Marafioti, author of American Gypsy: A Memoir'An admirably measured and authoritative portrait of a diverse, isolated and often wilfully misunderstood minority… Wise, quietly incandescent [and] insightful.'
* Telegraph *Katharine Quarmby’s journalism has appeared in The Economist, Private Eye, The Times, the Mail on Sunday and the Guardian, among other publications. She has been a finalist for the prestigious Paul Foot Prize and has produced films for BBC Newsnight and Panorama. Her first book, Scapegoat, on hate crimes against disabled people, won the AMIA International Literature award. She lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781851689491 |
| ISBN 10 | 1851689494 |
| Title | No Place to Call Home |
| Author | Katharine Quarmby |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oneworld Publications |
| Year published | 2013-08-22 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2014 (UK) |
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