The Battle of Cable Street
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Battle of Cable Street
By (Author) Tanya Landman
Illustrated by Sara Mulvanny
HarperCollins Publishers
Barrington Stoke Ltd
16th August 2022
2nd June 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
120
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
200g
Description
Life has always been tough on the streets of Stepney, where Elsie and her brother Mikey are growing up in a vermin-infested slum nicknamed "Paradise".
But the rise of anti-Semitic fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts in the 1930s stirs up trouble between families who have lived closely together for years, and Elsie sees friendships torn apart.
When Elsie and Mikey attend a Mosley rally, intending to heckle and cause trouble, they soon see how dangerous the situation has become, but out in the streets the fascists find that people will stand and fight against them and against hatred in what becomes the dramatic Battle of Cable Street.
Reviews
"A vivid retelling of a slice of our history many would prefer to forget ... Tanya Landman is one of our finest writers" -- LoveReading4Schools
Author Bio
Tanya Landman is renowned for her thought-provoking, prize-winning novels including the beautifully "deft and dark", Carnegie Medal-winning Buffalo Soldier. In 2019 she won the Scottish Teenage Book Prize for her critically acclaimed novella One Shot. Tanya says that she loves how writing allows her to daydream - something she was always in trouble for at school! She lives in Devon with her sons, a Siamese cat and two Labradors.
