Homecoming by Colin Grant

A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book Daily Telegraph Homecoming draws on over a hundred firsthand interviews archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their own words we witness the transition from the optimism of the first postwar arrivals to the race riots of the late 1950s. We hear from nurses in Manchester bus drivers in Paperback softback