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Hometown Tales: Birmingham
Hometown Tales (Related to this series)
- Narrator
- Alexander Bean
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 28 June 2018
- Run Time
- 1 hour 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.
In these pages on Birmingham, you'll find one unique tale. 'Silver in the Quarter' is a vivid coming-of-age fiction about a boy who finds himself caught up in the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974 by Maria Whatton.
Read by Alexander Bean
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018
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Details
- Author
- Maria Whatton and Stewart Lee
- Narrator
- Alexander Bean
- Duration
- 1 hour 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 June 2018
- ISBN
- 9781409182481
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Memoirs, Local and family history, nostalgia, Travel writing
Synopsis
Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.In these pages on Birmingham, you'll find one unique tale. 'Silver in the Quarter' is a vivid coming-of-age fiction about a boy who finds himself caught up in the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974 by Maria Whatton.Read by Alexander Bean(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018
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