A Ladybird Book: Windrush

byColin Grant, Emma Dyer, Melleny Taylor (Illustrator)

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Windrush uses the arrival of a significant naval ship to explore the history of post-war migration in Britain. It explores the treatment of Black people and the struggles they faced and continue to face as well as celebrating the legacy of the Windrush generation in modern Britain.

About Colin Grant

Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. His most recent book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Details
  • Series: A Ladybird Book
  • Imprint: Ladybird
  • ISBN: 9780241544204
  • Length: 48 pages
  • Dimensions: 178mm x 7mm x 119mm
  • Weight: 115g
  • Price: £6.99
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