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Paperback Books by Alex Wheatle
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| Publication Date: December 2008 |
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| Brixton Rock |
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| by Alex Wheatle |
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| A debut which confirms its author a pro in prose' The Times 'The novel's real strentgh lies in the dialogue. Wheatle gives us a fascinating snapshot of blak English in the early eighties' The Daily Telegraph In this updated version of the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2007 |
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| Island Songs |
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| by Alex Wheatle |
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| beautiful evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, and equivocal status as an overlooked outpost of the dwindling British Empire, Island Songs is an epic of love, diaspora, and sorely tested family loyalties. Many... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2006 |
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| Island Songs |
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| by Alex Wheatle |
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| beautiful evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, and equivocal status as an overlooked outpost of the dwindling British Empire, Island Songs is an epic of love, diaspora, and sorely tested family loyalties. Many... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2006 |
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| Checkers |
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| by Alex Wheatle |
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| When Careful Eddy Maynard hires two gangland crews to hijack a plane he gets more than he bargained for. A clash of cultures and wills ensue when he forces the crew to work together. When Eddie is later found dead, their mutual suspicion... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2005 |
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