African Caribbean Bookshop, Handsworth
The Harriet Tubman Bookshop on Grove Lane
Alfred Tennyson Dickens at the Town Hall
There is no year on this item, just the day and month of 20th February, but Dickens died early in 1912 in New York so it dates from within a few years before that. Alfred was the godson of Alfred Tennyson ...
Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet
"Born 1958 in Black River, Jamaica. Zephaniah came to England at the age of two and lived in the Lozells district of Birmingham. In the early part of his career, he performed politically motivated 'dub ...
Caryl Phillips, Writer/ Broadcaster
"Born St Kitts, West Indies. Caryl Phillips has written for cinema, television and radio. His literature deals mainly with colonial history. Books include 'The Final Passage' (1984), 'The Nature of Blood' ...
Drums of Fu Manchu
One of the Fu Manchu series of novels written by Sax Rohmer. Rohmer started off life as Arthur Henry Ward born at 28 Rann Street in Ladywood! An article by Chris Upton on Rohmer can be found in the galleries....
Samuel M. Goldstein - lecturer and writer
This profile, from the Sunday Mercury, is of one of their regular writers. Goldstein, of 35 Holloway Head. There was at this time a large Jewish community in the Holloway Head area with two synagogues ...
Sax Rohmer: Man Who Plotted To Rule The World - by Chris Upton
“He had a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan. Something serpentine, hypnotic, was in his very presence. Smith drew one sharp breath and was silent. Together, chained to the wall, two medieval ...
The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist born in Rann Street, Ladywood. He is most remembered for his series of novels ...