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  • The Lonely Londoners

    by Sam Selvon ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novelsAt Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ways of Sunlight

    by Sam Selvon ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive' Sunday Times'You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody else is lonely too'This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Housing Lark

    by Sam Selvon ...
    **The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canonA Penguin Classic**Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the "Mother Country" by following a group of friends as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lonely Londoners

    by Sam Selvon, Mr Roy Williams ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    London will do for you for now… And I will do for London.London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloetta's door only to find Moses and his friends already deflated by city life. Will the London fog dampen Galahad's dreams? Or will these Lonely Londoners make a home in a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Lonely Londoners

    by Sam Selvon ...
    Narrated by Carl Mason ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 10 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels.**At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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  • Darling

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    by Jackie Kay ...
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  • Nursery Rhymes & Verse From Africa

    Popular rhymes and verse reworked and illustrated by Liz Mills

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