Brixton Bwoy

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Brixton Bwoy
Rocky Carr

An autobiographical novel about a young Jamaican boy who comes to live in England and is sucked into a life of crime he can’t escape.Brixton Bwoy is the story of Pupatee, one of many brothers and sisters, growing up in Jamaica. Aged nine, he is sent to live in London with his twenty-year-old brother Joe. In London he sees snow for the first time, light switches, television; he is forced to cook for his violent brother who beats him if he does anything wrong, and soon Pupatee’s idyllic early childhood becomes a distant memory. It isn’t long before he is stealing bicycles, and then pickpocketing, shoplifting, armed robbery and more serious offences that land him in borstal and prison. As he gets older it becomes more and more difficult, however hard Pupatee tries, to escape the life of crime that threatens to ruin him. Brixton Bwoy is fresh and unflinching, a rivetting and honest account of a boy’s strange journey into adulthood, his Jamaican past and the South London streets that shape him.

ROCKY CARR

brixton bwoy

A NOVEL

Copyright (#ulink_36319984-c495-569f-aabc-c509e1449ab8)

First published in 1998 by

Fourth Estate

An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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Copyright © 1998 Rocky Carr

The right of Rocky Carr to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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The publisher and the author would like to thank Patricia Salkey for permission to reproduce ‘A Song for England’ by her late husband, Andrew Salkey.

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Source ISBN: 9780007291458

Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2016 ISBN: 9780007393404

Version: 2016-01-12

Dedication (#uf154e821-a65a-5f7e-8f80-2d422cfb3856)

For my parents, andfor Jeremy and Judy

Epigraph (#ulink_aedc3597-10ea-574a-ace3-5df199119b54)

A Song for England

An a so de rain a-fall

An a so de snow a-rain

An a so de fog a-fall

An a so de sun a-fail

An a so de seasons mix

An a so de bag-o-tricks

But a so me understan

De misery o de Englishman.

Andrew Salkey

Contents

Cover (#u6779ba14-8b75-5c8b-adc9-03cc31511921)

Title Page (#ub63690dc-e962-52ae-82ae-2b94451be4b2)

Copyright (#u8cacd5dd-bde5-5161-83ed-e6947da4038f)

Dedication (#u0f482502-e82f-5216-820c-4bc587dcf35a)

Epigraph (#ua7516e4f-f452-5035-8493-fc939bcd70c5)

1 – Ackee and Saltfish (#u1811f954-d2b2-5094-ae6f-50e24fef50dd)

2 – Fish and Chips in the Snow (#u116b52c6-125b-554a-85ef-338deee78583)

3 – Brother Joe (#u6bc1c098-e8c2-5ced-846c-db9e15250718)

4 – Brixton Front Line (#ub0de4177-4921-56a0-8eaa-8ad115bffbb5)

5 – Doing Time (#ua136fc1e-f811-50c4-b222-5cc0d75a23e4)

6 – Girlie (#ue6e704c2-acef-57f3-a4a3-90d6ce24d2bf)

7 – Return to Jamaica (#u924f9e47-fcbb-5322-9dd4-7c2ef01fcdd9)

8 – Drape Up (#uaadb83f4-c720-54fc-8416-2193fdd8d7f9)

About the Publisher (#u04e4c418-496d-5ff8-a216-a413db35b478)