×


 x 

Shopping cart
63%OFFJay Bernard - Surge - 9781784742614 - 9781784742614
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Surge

€ 12.99
€ 4.82
You save € 8.17!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Surge Paperback.

**Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**

Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed.


Dubbed the 'New Cross Massacre', the fire was initially believed to be a racist attack, and the indifference with which the tragedy was met by the state triggered a new era of race relations in Britain.

Tracing a line from New Cross to the 'towers of blood' of the Grenfell fire, this ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784742614
SKU
9781784742614
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-8

About Jay Bernard
Jay Bernard is the author of the pamphlets Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl (Tall Lighthouse, 2008), English Breakfast (Math Paper Press, 2013) and The Red and Yellow Nothing (Ink Sweat & Tears Press, 2016), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2017. A film programmer at BFI Flare and an archivist at Statewatch, they also participated in ‘The Complete ... Read more

Reviews for Surge
Haunting, historical, archival and imaginative... a stunning debut
Bernardine Evaristo
New Statesman, Books of the Year
Surge is a radical hybrid, painfully beautiful multigenerational ghost story, a social document, and a work of political archaeology. It is an indictment of this country's systemic hostility to its black, Asian and ethnic minority population, and the scandalous lack of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Surge


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!