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2011
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Man Booker Prize Finalist: A "winning and ingenious" novel about an eleven-year-old immigrant boy trying to solve a murder ( The Plain Dealer).Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body. It is the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his incredible basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner.Armed with a pair of camouflage binoculars and techniques absorbed from television shows like CSI, Harri and his best ...
2015
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For the first time the complete works of the Booker- and Guardian-shortlisted author Stephen Kelman are collected together in one digital box set.In Kelman's first novel, Pigeon English, Kelman narrates the powerful and unforgettable tale of Harrison Opoku. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, Harri lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his n...
2015
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There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting . . . You actually thought they were going to kill each other. You wanted them to stop. It wasn't funny anymore.Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The (second) best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adid...
2011
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Guardian First Book Award'Pigeon English is a book to fall in love with: a funny book, a true book, a shattering book' The Times'Simultaneously accurate and fantastical, this boy's love letter to the world made me laugh and tremble all the way through. Pigeon English is a triumph' Emma Donoghue, author of RoomEleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the seco...
2015
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A powerful and touching novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Pigeon English'A writer of considerable talent' Financial TimesLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017I was beating the life out of Bibhuti with a baseball bat when my first monsoon broke…John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny.He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England to offer h...
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- Terrell Lewis
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7 hours 35 min
2024
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Bloomsbury presents Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman, read by Terrell LewisShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Guardian First Book Award'Pigeon English is a book to fall in love with: a funny book, a true book, a shattering book' The Times‘Simultaneously accurate and fantastical, this boy's love letter to the world made me laugh and tremble all the way through. Pigeon English is a triumph'
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