Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023

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Not only a notable accumulation, from original sources, of the horrors of survival on the streets of nineteenth-century London, but a devastating exposure of pseudo-charity as a form of coercive policing.

Mud, Rocks, Blazes is a testament to the power of a challenging physical feat to transform a person's self-awareness and sense of self-worth. Most Nigerians remember this match, whether they were born at the time or not; know the story like they know God-with a fervent, fastidious faith. Jensen only lightly editorialises, to give context and in some cases stand up for a society we don't understand (there is a case where a woman who has lived as a man and their partner has their prefer pronouns used in a way that many politicians today would refuse to do out of spite). Jensen's collection of stories of life on the streets and the margins on 18th and 19th Century London does not add up to any grand narrative of the development of London, or British society. takes us deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of a people in duress—and in triumph—in a way that only the best fiction can do.Oskar Jensen has coaxed out of the archives a vast range of original voices of the street poor of London. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. To Thomas, all this was believable because he had read Genesis, which made it clear how God felt about disobedience. Johnny’s job is to drive and be silent, and he does both so well he loses his voice, his conscience, and his mind just as he discovers his love for a man named Livinus.

He knew that tortoises had cracked shells as punishment for their unrepentant greed, from when they were dropped from heaven on their backs by a tired God. The later chapters in particular gave me a very strong reminder of the London chapters in Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, albeit a century apart. Vagabonds" by Eloghosa Osunde is a complex novel that explores Nigerian spirituality, queer representation, and the lives of those who are often marginalized in society.is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos. I wasn’t scared, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost…I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that’s why it happened right there and then that strange red afternoon. So she pulled her ear as she told Anjos, "Stay away from Eziza, if you like your life; just stay away.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. All aspiring hikertrash have to start somewhere and Derick relates this journey with great honesty and humor. Hyenas sounded the way they did because they were found gossiping among themselves during a meeting in heaven which ended with God turning to them and saying in a bitter voice: Oh, you want to laugh? There was another story, too, about not letting people touch your head because you don't know what spirit they're carrying.Increasing rates of homelessness, foodbanks experiencing unprecedented demand and spiralling energy costs which force households to choose between heating and eating provide grim echoes of the plight of those whose stories fill this book. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. His latest book is Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London (Duckworth, 2022), and his first detective novel will appear with Viper in January 2024. She is the winner of the 2021 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction, as well as an ASME Award for fiction. They fought to exhaustion, then hugged and shook hands before heading off together, asking: "So what was that your name again?

He knew, he always had, that life was about timing and death was always lurking and all of life was hide-and-seek. Jensen doesn't just present these hitherto marginalised figures on the page; like a delightful sorcerer, he brings them back to life.Winner of the 2021 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of a Miles Morland Scholarship, she was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow and a 2020 MacDowell Colony Fellow.