Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (author) (UK edition)

‘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 Room

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 victim’s nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.

From Autumn 2015, Stephen Kelman’s deeply funny, moving idiosyncratic and unforgettable novel will be an AQA GCSE English Literature set text.

Product Details

Catalogue number

3721 in Education Catalogue 2023–24

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781408866597

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Date published

April 2nd, 2015

Other details

272 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

10copies
Pigeon English x 10

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Price: $138.45

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Price: £89.90
30copies
Pigeon English x 30

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Price: $415.34

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Price: £269.70