KELMAN STEPHEN

(P/B) PIGEON ENGLISH
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the...
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(P/B) MAN ON FIRE
"I 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 his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. In answering Bibhuti's call for assistance, John hopes to rewrite a brave end to a life poorly lived. But as they take their leap of faith together, and John is welcomed into Bibhuti's family...
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ΑΓΡΙΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ
Όλοι λένε πως έχουμε πόλεμο, αλλά δεν τον έχω δει ακόμα. Άπειροι πόλεμοι γίνονται συνέχεια: Πόλεμοι: Παιδιά εναντίον Δασκάλων / Γυμνάσιο Νόρθγουελ Μέινορ εναντίον Γυμνασίου Λίμπρηζ / Παρέα της Φόρμας Ντελ εναντίον Παρέας του Λιούζι Χιλ / Τουρκία εναντίον Ρωσίας / Άρσεναλ εναντίον Τσέλσι / Μαύροι εναντίον Λευκών / Θεός εναντίον Αλλάχ / Γάτες εναντίον Σκύλων / Άλιεν εναντίον Κυνηγών / Αστυνομία εναντίον Παιδιών. Δεν έχω δει κανέναν απ' αυτούς τους πολέμους. Άμα γινότανε πόλεμος θα το καταλάβαινες, γιατί θα έσπαζαν όλα τα παράθυρα και τα ελικ...
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(P/B) PIGEON ENGLISH
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers -the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen- blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang -the Dell Farm Crew- and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in En...
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