The Fire Next Time: WITH My Dungeon Shook: AND Down at the Cross

And why we will never, ever stop reading them' Afua Hirsch `Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures' Washington Post`When she arrived, with her first novel, The Bluest Eye, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape' Ben Okri Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us. After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago.