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Being Ben (PB) by Jacqueline Roy
Category: Picture Books
This is a quirky "Racing Read" featuring a British Jamaican family in a contemporary setting. Ben is a boy with a lively imagination and a tendency to worry. He's scared of lots of things - the new baby (it will have green hair and yellow eyes and poo and scream all the time), nasty stripes (they're eve ...Show more
The Fat Lady Sings: Black Britain: Writing Back by Roy Jacqueline
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Britain: Writing Back Ser.
It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric ward. She is unapologetically loud, audacious and eternally on the brink of bursting into song. After several months of uninterrupted routine, she is joined by another young black woman - Merle - who is full of silences and fear.Unable to con ...Show more
The Gosling Girl by Jacqueline Roy
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'A tour de force of engaged storytelling. With heart-wrenching pathos, The Gosling Girl delineates the bleak aftermath for all concerned when one child kills another' Peter Kalu Monster? Murderer? Child? Victim? Michelle Cameron's name is associated ...Show more
The Gosling Girl by Jacqueline Roy
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Monster? Murderer? Child? Victim? Michelle Cameron's name is associated with the most abhorrent of crimes. A child who lured a younger child away from her parents and to her death, she is known as the black girl who murdered a little white girl; evil incarnate according to the media. As the book opens, ...Show more
The Gosling Girl by Jacqueline Roy
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'[The Gosling Girl] interrogates the context of a child's crime and simplistic notions of evil by society and the media. It fosters understanding & empathy and draws us deep inside the protagonist's psychology' Bernardine EvaristoMonster? Murderer? Child? V ...Show more
VERY BEST OF JACQUELINE DU PRE 3CD by Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Gerald Moore, Roy Jesson, Osian Ellis, John Williams, Pinchas Zukerman & Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Barenboim London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Category: Classical
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