Alex Wheatle, Patrice Lawrence

Alex Wheatle, the writer known as the ‘Brixton Bard’ and awarded an MBE for his services to literature presents his latest Young Adult fiction novel Crongton Knights. It is the funny, moving story of McKay who finds out who his true friends are and what it means to stick with your family after encounters with adventure, danger, ‘power-tripping hood-rats’ and a notoriously violent gangster with a vendetta...

In Patrice Lawrence’s dazzling debut novel, Marlon is a 16 yr old who is fascinated by how the brain works, loves his dad’s old records and has promised his mum he'll never follow his brother down the wrong path. But then after one fateful night he finds himself in deep trouble, hunted, and out of choices. Can he become the person he never wanted to be, to protect everyone he loves?