EXCLUSIVE: Left badly disturbed by a care home upbringing, Alex Wheatle was jailed after the Brixton riots. Now an acclaimed author, his poignant and profound new memoir looks back on a childhood saved by the power of reading
TWO years ago, British media reflected on one of the darkest incidents in their country's modern history.
It was the 40th anniversary of the Brixton Riots, which destroyed that south London dist.
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