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The Lonely Londoners
First US edition
AuthorSamuel Selvon
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAllan Wingate (UK)
St Martin's Press (US)
Publication date
1956
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages142 pp.
OCLC65467567

The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon. Its publication was one of the first to focus on poor, working-class black people following the enactment of the British Nationality Act 1948 alongside George Lamming's (1954) novel The Emigrants. The Lonely Londoners was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books selected by a panel of experts, and announced in April 2022 by the BBC and The Reading Agency, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee in June 2022.[1]

  1. ^ "The Big Jubilee Read: Books from 1952 to 1961". BBC. 17 April 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.

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