Desmond Dekker

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.