Liccle Bit: Book 1 (Crongton)

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He now visits schools, colleges, universities, libraries and prisons facilitating creative writing classes and performing inspiring speeches. He has also narrated an audio guide to the streets of Brixton for soundmap. I found this novel started slowly but built in tension around the middle. Once you hit that point, it’s hard to put the book down. Following Lemar as he tries to work out how to keep his life in balance, this book draws you in for the ride right to the end.

F or all the latest reality TV news and gossip and for the best memes and quizzes, like The Holy Church of Love Island on Facebook. Related stories recommended by this writer: Armitstead, Claire (17 November 2016). "Alex Wheatle wins 2016 Guardian children's fiction prize". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 November 2016. At least Lemar has art to help him escape, and it's even getting him some attention from the girl he likes, Venetia King. Yet Lemar has also gained the attention of South Crongton's most notorious gangster, and it's not long before he has Lemar running errands for him. Soon a chain of events will see Lemar down a road he never wanted to go down, will he be able to stop it? What a gripping tale of family and friends, love and loyalty... Lemar's voice is so strong and I loved the humour in it too.'

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He wrote and performed Uprising, a one-man play based on his own life at Tara Arts Studios, Wandsworth, London. In 2011, he took Uprising on tour and performed it at the Writing On The Wall Festival, Liverpool, the Oxford Playhouse, the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, the Ilkley Playhouse and the Albany Theatre, Deptford. [ citation needed] The play re-toured theatres and literature festivals in 2012, marking the 50th year of Jamaican Independence. [10]

In his next novel, The Seven Sisters (2002), Wheatle moves away from what might have been an easy winning formula. Set in the suburbs and rural Surrey, The Seven Sisters (on the surface at least) turns from the politics of race in the early 1980s to a more personal, psychological narrative of four abused boys running away from a children’s home during the long hot summer of 1976. Behind the tragic events that are unflinchingly described in the novel, is a strong undercurrent of humour which will be familiar to readers of Wheatle’s other fiction and which gives a tonal complexity, as well as a sense of hope, to often bleak, depressive, and depressed visions. This book is a blast of fresh air and will appeal to all types of teenagers, from the booky to absolute reluctants (Barrington Stoke’s dyslexic sensitive publishing standards also help here). In 2008, Wheatle was awarded the MBE for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.The book contains graphic descriptions of violence and brutality throughout, so this is one best for older children aged thirteen and up. For me it’s a rollercoaster of emotions that I’m trying to manipulate the reader into’ - Alex Wheatle on fictional world building, creating new language and seeing yourself in a book Enter our competition to win the Crongton series by Alex Wheatle Can you explain how you created the Crongton dialect? Birthday Honours List 2008". Archived from the original on 23 July 2008 . Retrieved 11 August 2008.