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A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
Category: Biography Memoir
One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again. Christopher was diagnosed with epilepsy. A Smell of Burning tells the remarkable story of this strange ...Show more
Homecoming - Voices from the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
Category: History
When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. 'We're here because we're here,' his father would say. 'You have some place else to go?' But now, seventy years after the arrival of ships such as the Windrush, this gene ...Show more
Homecoming - Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
Category: Biography
'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s ...Show more
I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer by Colin Grant
Category: Music
The Wailers are the undisputed sovereigns of reggae: and one of the biggest and most influential groups of the twentieth century. In the course of their ten years together, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley produced a raft of songs – including ‘Get Up, Stand Up’, ‘I Shot the Sherriff’ and ‘Stir It ...Show more
I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer by Colin Grant
Category: Film
A trio of Trench Town R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers - one of the most influential groups in popular music. This title charts their complex relationship, th ...Show more
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