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Diran Adebayo
My Once Upon a Time
 
A Chandleresque thriller set in south London, where a less than successful private eye has seven days to find a bride for a mysterious millionaire. This is a rich and inventive novel that plays with the thriller genre to great effect, offering some perceptive insights into our times.
 
Abacus 2001 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-349-11442-0
 
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Diran Adebayo
Some Kind of Black
 
Dele is a young student who glides through violence, love and politics, with his sister Dapo. He comes of age in Black London with its world of Afro-bohos, Nubians and the Love Has No Colour Brigade, with the soundtrack of pirate radio playing in the background.
 
1996 Writer's Guild of Great Britain - New Writer of the Year Picture of rosette representing a prize winners
 
Abacus 1997 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-349-10872-2
 
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Edited by Diran Adebayo & Blake Morrison
New Writing 12
 
Through its annual anthologies of New Writing, the British Council launches many new authors and provides a show window around the world in which new writing can be viewed. This title promotes the best in contemporary literature in the English language in Britain and internationally.

Editors: Diran Adebayo, Blake Morrison and Jane Rogers
 
Picador 2003 pbk £8.99 ISBN 0-330-48598-9
 
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Diran Adebayo, Nicola Barker & Andrea Levy
Edited by Maggie Hamand
Underwords: The Hidden City
 
Writing on the theme of Hidden London, uncovering little-known aspects of this diverse city. Featuring six stories by previously unpublished Londoners, together with work by prominent London authors Diran Adebayo, Nicola Barker, Romesh Gunesekera, Hanif Kureishi, Sarah Hall, Andrea Levy, Patrick Neate and Alex Wheatle.
 
Maia Press Limited 2005 pbk £9.99 ISBN 1-904559-14-X
 

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