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Don't Ask the Dragon by Lemn Sissay
Category: Graphic Novels
The first children's book from number one bestselling author, poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay, beautifully illustrated throughout.
Don't Ask the Dragon by Lemn Sissay
Category: Middle Readers
The first children's book from number one bestselling author, poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay, beautifully illustrated throughout This is the story of a little boy called Alem who goes on an adventure. It's his birthday, but who knows where he can go to celebrate it? Maybe the bear, the fox, the ...Show more
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to ...Show more
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay
Category: Poetry
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book ...Show more
Listener by Lemn Sissay
Category: Poetry
Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice - visionary, good-humoured and bursting with life.
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; Lemn Sissay (Adapted by)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the ...Show more
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
Category: Biography
A memoir with a message - about growing up in care and finding hope, determination and creativity - from British poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay.
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
Category: Biography
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his sa ...Show more
Rebel without Applause by Lemn Sissay
Category: Poetry
Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city and have been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has been published in press as diverse as the the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent to The Face and Dazed &a ...Show more
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at the age of 18. No longer the possession of the soci ...Show more
Tales of the Weird, and the Wild and Wonderful by Sophie Willan; Lemn Sissay (Foreword by); Richard Watson (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Books
A Care Leaver--like each of the contributors to this fresh story collection--is any adult who spent time as a child in foster care, residential care (mainly children's homes), or other arrangements outside their family. Discover why Franny Georgette Tinkleboom has been travelling around the world in a v ...Show more
Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century by Vikas Shah; Lemn Sissay (Foreword by)
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Since 2007, entrepreneur and philanthropist Vikas Shah MBE has been on a mission to interview the people shaping our century.We often talk of war and conflict, the economy, culture, technology and revolutions as if they are something other than us. But all these things are a product of us - people like ...Show more
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