Pigeon English

Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, 11 year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the 9th floor of a block of flats on a London 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. A spellbinding portrayal, nominated for the Booker Prize and First Book Award, of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls