Colin Grant’s unique memoir Bageye at the Wheel is a compassionate but unsentimental tale, rich in comic observation, of growing up in 1970s Luton, then a provincial town with few West Indian immigrants. His father, Bageye, finds it a struggle to feed his five ‘pickney’ on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, and his wife Blossom is keen for him to spend less money on gambling and more on shoes for his children. Colin Grant is a historian and BBC radio producer. He is also the author of Negro with a Hat, a biography of Marcus Garvey, and I&I: The Natural Mystics, a group biography of the original Wailers, Marley, Tosh and Livingston, which was hailed as one of the best music books of 2011. £6/£4. Book on 0843 208 0500 or via Quay Tickets. A Manchester Literature Festival event.