Alex Wheatle, the ‘Brixton Bard’ who wrote the Crongton Knights books and inspired a film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, has died aged 62. Alex’s family shared a statement confirming ...

Its foundation is built upon the celebrated author Alex Wheatle's best-selling novel ... acclaim with his second book in the series, Crongton Knights. The novel clinched The Guardian Children's ...

Earlier this month the writer Alex Wheatle died. Known as “the Brixton ... He won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2016 for Crongton Knights, with a television adaptation coming ...

Writer Alex Wheatle at Buckingham Palace after receiving an MBE for ... “We feel incredibly privileged to have worked with Alex on the adaptation of his award-winning Crongton Knights books, whose ...

Certainly, Crongton, BBC Three’s zippy new 10-part adaptation of Alex Wheatle’s YA series Crongton Knights, set on a fictional housing estate and focusing on a frightened 13-year-old boy ...

Writer Alex Wheatle at Buckingham Palace after receiving ... have worked with Alex on the adaptation of his award-winning Crongton Knights books, whose young characters leap off the page in ...