Alex Wheatle is an award-winning, best-selling author in the UK, published by Hachette/Little, Brown imprint, Atom.Wheatle is a British author of Jamaican descent who spent most of his youth in foster care in the UK. As a teenager he was involved in the 1981 Brixton uprising and spent 3 months in prison. His fiction is greatly influenced by his teenage experiences so carries a level of authenticity and honesty. Home Girl will definitely appeal to fans of Angie Thomas's best-selling novel,...
Alex Wheatle is an award-winning, best-selling author in the UK, published by the Hachette/Little, Brown imprint, Atom. Akashic’s edition will come out simultaneously with the Hachette UK edition. Wheatle regularly contributes to the Guardian, the Independent, and other high profile UK publications. Akashic is well-connected to Jamaican/Caribbean community in the US.
