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Liccle Bit
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Michael Ajao
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Venetia King is the hottest girl at school. Too bad Lemar is the second shortest guy in his year. Everyone calls him Liccle Bit, and his two best friends, McKay and Jonah, never tire of telling him he has no chance with girls. Things aren't much better at home. His mum is permanently hassled, his sister a frustrated single mum and his dad moved out years ago. Liccle Bit wishes he could do something - anything! - to make life better. A new phone would be a start....
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Liccle Bit
- Narrated by: Michael Ajao
- Series: Crongton, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: English
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East of Acre Lane
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Bernard Mensah
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Set in 1981, the year of the Brixton riots, the novel is a gripping thriller in a society on the edge of explosion. Wheatle focusses on Biscuit and his posse as a way to introduce the whole community. Biscuit lives with his mother, brother and sister. He helps out by hustling on the frontline for the South London badman, Nunchaks. He doesn’t want to be doing this for the rest of his life but it’s difficult to get out of the trap. As the patience of the community breaks and the riots begin to erupt, Biscuit has to make a choice that could change his life forever.
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Reminiscent of my youth
- By Grace on 18-05-24
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East of Acre Lane
- Narrated by: Bernard Mensah
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-11-20
- Language: English
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Cane Warriors
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Noel Arthur, Alex Wheatle
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Moa is 14. 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 before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking, and the day of the uprising approaches....
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Cane Warriors
- By Issy on 04-06-22
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Cane Warriors
- Narrated by: Noel Arthur, Alex Wheatle
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Sufferah
- Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Troy Glasglow
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Abandoned as a baby to the British care system, Alex Wheatle grows up with no knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. Later, he is inexorably drawn to reggae, his lifeline through disrupted teenage years and the challenges of living as a young Black man in 1980s Britain. Alex's youth was portrayed in Oscar Award-winning director Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" series (2020). In Sufferah, he tells his own story urgently, vividly and unsentimentally. His award-winning fiction - and this memoir - are a call to never give up hope.
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Identity
- By Lex Richards on 24-07-24
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Sufferah
- Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
- Narrated by: Troy Glasglow
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Crongton Knights
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Michael Ajao
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Living on the South Crongton council estate has its worries - and life for McKay has been even tougher since his mum died. His dad has been working all hours to keep the bailiffs from their door. His brother is always out riding the streets at night, tempting trouble. And now, having strayed off his turf on a 'heroic' (if misguided) mission to help out a girl, McKay finds himself facing a friend's crazy ex-boyfriend, some power-tripping hood-rats and a notoriously violent gangster with a vendetta which hits too close to home.
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Crongton Knights
- Narrated by: Michael Ajao
- Series: Crongton, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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Brixton Rock
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Joel Trill
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Brenton Brown is 16 years old. A mixed race youth, Brenton has lived in a children's home all his life. Being reunited with his mother is the best thing that has happened to Brenton. But a strange series of events soon push him to the edge...
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OMFG!!!
- By Daz on 14-03-15
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Brixton Rock
- Narrated by: Joel Trill
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-07-11
- Language: English
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Witness
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: David Monteith
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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Cornell is having a bad time. Kicked out of secondary school for a fight he didn't start, he finds himself in a Pupil Referral Unit. Here he makes friends with one of the Sinclair family. You don't mess with the Sinclairs, and when Ryan Sinclair demands Cornell comes with him to teach another student some respect, Ryan witnesses something that will change his life. Torn between protecting his family and himself, Cornell has one hell of a decision to make.
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Relatable Moral Easy Read
- By Anne C on 30-01-24
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Witness
- Narrated by: David Monteith
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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In the Ends
- A Crongton Story
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Michael Ajao
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Things have been quiet in South Crongton. It's been an age since anyone last spotted Manjaro, South Crong's most notorious warlord. But there have been murmurs that something is coming. Jonah is the fastest sprinter in South Crong, and has his sights set on an Olympic Medal one day. But with his dad now jobless, and his parents constant fighting because they can't make ends meet, Jonah has more on his mind than the North/South Crong gang war games.
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In the Ends
- A Crongton Story
- Narrated by: Michael Ajao
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-07-24
- Language: English
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The Humiliations of Welton Blake
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie—the best-looking girl in school—and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and humiliating events. With bullies to avoid, girls ready to knock him out and all the drama with his mum and dad, life for Welton is about to go very, very wrong.
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The Humiliations of Welton Blake
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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Island Songs
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Sara Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into, the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world. But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, do get to see the outside world. Growing up in rural Claremont, working amid the hustle and bustle, lawn parties and houses of joy in Trenchtown, the two sisters take a chance and move to England with their husbands, that far-off land of riches, where they settle down to motherhood among the jazz cafés and bleak streets of Brixton.
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Masterful prequel to East of Acre Lane
- By Anonymous User on 18-03-24
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Island Songs
- Narrated by: Sara Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-10-21
- Language: English
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Home Girl
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Zoe Grisedale
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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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 fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic and full of courage - just like Naomi. It is award-winning author Alex Wheatle's most moving and personal novel to date.
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Home Girl
- Narrated by: Zoe Grisedale
- Series: Crongton, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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Brenton Brown
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Juliet is consumed with guilt knowing that her half-brother, Brenton, grew up in children's homes while she received all her mother's love. She marries Clayton, a successful banker, to please her mother. But secretly Clayton has always suspected that there is something between Juliet and her half-brother. Meanwhile, Juliet and Brenton try to stay away from what they know is a forbidden love...
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Good book and Authentic
- By Debbie W. on 23-10-18
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Brenton Brown
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-06-11
- Language: English
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Straight Outta Crongton
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Life's a constant hustle for Mo. Her mum's boyfriend, Lloyd, is just another man who likes to beat down women; the South Crong streets are fraught with hazards and nasty G's; and when it comes to matters of the heart...she's still hung up on Sam. No wonder she's vexed so much of the time. Thank god her sistrens, Elaine and Naomi, are on her side: if one of them falls then they all fall. But when badness goes down and a life is left hanging in the balance, Mo has to face her hot urge for revenge...and she might end up losing more than she wins.
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Straight Outta Crongton
- Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
- Series: Crongton, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 19-07-21
- Language: English
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Kemosha of the Caribbean
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Sara Novak
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape brutal treatment. With fortune on her side, Kemosha befriends Ravenhide, a man with a mysterious past who teaches her the art of sword fighting and introduces her to the beautiful runaway Isabella. Yet Kemosha's greatest test yet is upon the deck of the Satisfaction: the notorious Captain Morgan’s ship.
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Kemosa of the Caribbean
- By Andrew Fontenelle on 22-04-22
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Kemosha of the Caribbean
- Narrated by: Sara Novak
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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Straight Outta Crongton
- Crongton, Book 3
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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'Round these ends, it's hard to hold on to your dreams Life's a constant hustle for Mo. Her mum's boyfriend Lloyd is just another man who likes to beat down women; the South Crong streets are fraught with hazards and nasty Gs; and when it comes to matters of the heart...she's still hung up on Sam. No wonder she's vexed so much of the time. Thank god her sistrens, Elaine and Naomi, are on her side: if one of them falls, then they all fall.
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Straight Outta Crongton
- Crongton, Book 3
- Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
- Series: Crongton, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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The Girl with the Red Boots
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Length: 12 hrs
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Fourteen-year-old aspiring footballer Kadeen Best is sent to stay with her Aunt Mel in London after her beloved older brother is tragically killed and she identifies the shooter - a dangerous crime lord. She must carry her grief while adjusting to her new home - away from everything she knows and loves in Jamaica - and living with her strict aunt. Kadeen must lie low, as if she's recognised, she'll put them both in serious danger. Desperate for a distraction, Kadeen practises football in the local park where she's asked to try out for a girls' team.
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The Girl with the Red Boots
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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