News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

East of Acre Lane

by Alex Wheatle - £9.99  HarperCollins (2006)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780007225620 | ISBN 10: 0007225628

A searing account of a young man's attempt to do the right thing set against the backdrop of the Brixton Riots.
 
It is 1981. Biscuit lives with his mother, brother and sister. He helps out by hustling on the frontline for the South London badman, Nunchaks. He doesn't want to be doing this for the rest of his life but its difficult to get out of the trap.
 
East of Acre Lane is a gripping thriller set in a society on the verge of exploding. As the patience of the community breaks and the riots begin to erupt, Biscuit has to make a choice that could change his life forever.

"A cool, credible read... Wheatle has written a hard hitting novel which is an incendiary reminder of one of the most explosive events in London's post-war history."
(Big Issue)

(Price & availability last checked: May 2018)

Order by email

×

East of Acre Lane - by Alex Wheatle

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

East of Acre Lane

by Alex Wheatle

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: Black Britain, Fiction - Black British Writers, Writers by Surname - W, Political Fiction, Historical Fiction, Black British History,
In categories: Black, Asian & Other Diasporas, Fiction, Politics & Philosophy, History & Biography,