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To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight's, he is always known as Bageye. There aren't very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather at Mrs Knight's - Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots - each has his nickname. Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school.

In this wonderful memoir Colin Grant looks at his father through the eyes of his ten-year-old self. Colin is Bageye's favourite 'pickney', and often his reluctant companion in his latest attempt to placate Blossom with another DIY project, or a little cash. When he acquires a less than roadworthy old car, Bageye sets himself up as an unofficial minicab service, lack of a driving licence notwithstanding. More profitable are his marijuana deals, until the day he mistakenly entrusts Colin with choosing a hiding place for a huge bag of ganja...

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"The book is a classic of its kind, in my opinion; if I were Bageye, I would be immensely proud of it." (Sunday Telegraph)

"He has a great ear for Bageye’s patois-heavy dialect and offers detailed accounts of his father’s simultaneously bathetic and bizarre escapades in which a young, unwilling Grant is sucked into a world of gambling, marijuana, ceiling tiles and unlicensed cabs." (Daragh Reddin Metro)

"Grant’s memoir is the latest in a long series of accounts of immigration from the West Indies... As for Grant’s addition to this genre, I must jettison any claims to cool by confessing that I loved every word of it." (Peter Carty Independent)

"What a fabulous example of storytelling this book is... The authorial voice might be in that fashionable nine to eleven-year old bracket, but it has the rarer psychological insight of a writer remembering himself as a child." (Keith Bruce Herald Scotland)

"Bageye at the Wheel is a wonderfulyl amusing and insightful account of a young Jamaican boy growing up in Luton" (Luton News)
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A unique memoir about growing up in one of the few black families in Luton in the 1970s and a superb portrait of the author's father: the feckless, tyrannical Bageye.

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 0224091050
  • ISBN 13 9780224091053
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages288
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