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Author: Alex Wheatle
Format: Online
Author Alex Wheatle
Narrator Troy Glasgow
Duration 5h 59m
In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle shows how music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse and his imprisonment as a young man protesting against systemic racism and police brutality. Abandoned as a baby to the British care system, Alex Wheatle grows up with no knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family h...
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Author: Alex Wheatle
Format: Online
Author Alex Wheatle
Narrator Noel Arthur, The Author
Duration 4h 14m
Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But be...
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Author: Alex Wheatle
Format: Online
Author Alex Wheatle
Narrator Zoe Grisedale
Duration 6h 53m
New from the winner of the Guardian Children's Book Award: Home Girl is the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast in the care system. It is a wholly modern story which sheds a much needed light on what can be an unsettling life - and the consequences that can follow when children are treated like pawns on a family chessboard. Home Girl is...
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