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  • Small Island

    by Andrea Levy ...
    Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the Empire Windrush generation, it was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.'A great read... honest, skilful, thoughtful ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Small Island (NHB Modern Plays)

    (stage version)

    by Andrea Levy, Helen Edmundson ...
    Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 – the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. Small ... Read more

    $16.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Small Island

    by Andrea Levy, Helen Edmundson ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    This edition is the prescribed text for the English Mastery Secondary programme.Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.Andrea Levy's epic novel Small Island, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Song

    by Andrea Levy, Suhayla El-Bushra ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'You do not know me yet but I am the heroine of this drama. I am told that here I must give a taste of what is to unfold. I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent days of slavery and the early years of freedom.'I am to say that it is a true and thrilling journey through that unsettled time.'Cha, I say, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just see it for themselves.'The ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fruit of the Lemon

    by Andrea Levy ...
    Introduction by Kit de Waal_______We're thinking of going home to Jamaica.'And my reaction was, 'For a holiday. Fantastic! How long for?''Not for a holiday, Faith,' Dad said hesitantly. 'Your mum and me are thinking . . .' He held up his hand, 'Only thinking, mind, of going back there to live. To get a little place and live.'I stared at my dad and thought about Fondant Fancies. My mind ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Six Stories and an Essay

    by Andrea Levy ...
    Andrea Levy's final publication - a collection of short stories she had written over her career________'None of my books is just about race,' Levy has said.'They're about people and history.' Her novels have triumphantly given voice to the people and stories that might have slipped through the cracks in history. From Jamaican slave society in the nineteenth century, through post-war immigration ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Long Song

    A Novel

    by Andrea Levy ...
    The "brilliant" story of July, a slave girl living on a sugar plantation in 1830s Jamaica just as emancipation is coming into action ( Reader's Digest).Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Small Island

    A Novel

    by Andrea Levy ...
    "Levy's beautifully wrought novel is a window into 1948 England . . . A bristling, funny, angry tale of love and sacrifice." — Entertainment WeeklyThe Basis for the PBS Masterpiece ClassicWinner of the Orange Prize and Whitbread Book of the YearHortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Jose... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Uriah's War

    by Andrea Levy ...
    Written to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, this short story by multi-award-winning, million copy bestselling author Andrea Levy tells the tale of two Jamaican service men in that conflict. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Every Light in the House Burnin'

    by Andrea Levy ...
    Longlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionIntroduction by Kit de Waal_______My dad was a man - most dads are. But my dad had been taught or was shown or picked up that a man was certain things and a woman was others. He was head of a family - a breadwinner. He should go out to work in the morning and come home at night. He had to discipline children and occasionally do things around the home that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Never Far From Nowhere

    by Andrea Levy ...
    Introduction by Kit de Waal______I looked at the old photograph of Olive and me on the wall. Two little girls with identical yellow bows in our hair and happy, smiling chubby cheeks. But now Olive's arms were folded on the world. She was angry with everything, with everyone. And I had grown too big for our council flat, but not sure where else I would fit. Where did we belong? I answered my mum ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fruit of the Lemon

    A Novel

    by Andrea Levy ...
    **From the award-winning author of Small Island, "a bittersweet exploration of an outsider's experience of British culture" ( Bookmarks).Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house with friends, Faith is full of hope and expectation. But when her parents ... Read more

    $12.99 USD