Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays and his memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Essex, Huddersfield and Brunel, and in 2019 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He received an MBE in 2010 and an OBE in 2021 for services to literature and charity. In 2023, Sissay was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. He is British and Ethiopian.
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14 Ebooks bởi Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay: Something Dark
Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent …
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Lemn Sissay: Gold from the Stone
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built fro …
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Lemn Sissay: My Name Is Why
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERINDIE BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION WINNER’EXTRAORDINARY’ The Times, ‘BEAUTIFUL’ Dolly Alderton, ‘SHATTERING’ Observer, ‘INCREDIBLE’ Benjamin Zephaniah, ‘UNPUTDOWNABLE …
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Lemn Sissay: Listener
Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay”s unique voice – visionary, good-humoured and bur …
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Lemn Sissay: Rebel Without Applause
Lemn Sissay”s poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city andhave been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has beenpublish …
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Lemn Sissay: Morning Breaks In The Elevator
Six years after his last solo publication, Lemn Sissay brings togetherthe experiences of those intervening years in a stunning newcollection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay”s work, we wit …
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Vikas Shah: Thought Economics
<p><b>‘Stimulating, intelligent and enjoyable discussions of the most important issues of our day. STEVEN PINKER </b><br><br><b>‘From entrepreneurs to …
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€7.67
Lemn Sissay: Don”t Ask the Dragon
This is the story of a little boy called Alem who goes on an adventure. It”s his birthday, but who knows where he can go to celebrate it?Maybe the bear, the fox, the treefrog or the bulldog know? Bu …
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Lemn Sissay: My Name Is Why
SPECIALLY ABRIDGED FOR QUICK READS How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how. This story is true. My Name Is Why is a true story about …
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€1.99
Alan Lane: The Club on the Edge of Town
‘There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That’s what …
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Lemn Sissay: Let the Light Pour In
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE BOOK TO GIFT For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-a …
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Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis (NHB Modern Plays)
Gregor Samsa wakes up each morning, quietly leaves the house to take the same train, and works to pay off the family debt. But that world explodes one morning, when Gregor awakes to find himself chan …
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Zephaniah Benjamin Zephaniah: Refugee Boy
An eye for an eye. It’s very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his peop …
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Zephaniah Benjamin Zephaniah: Refugee Boy
An eye for an eye. It’s very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his peop …
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