Victor Headley
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Victor Headley is a Jamaica
n born British
author. He is the author of the bestselling Yardie (1992), as well as Excess (1993) Yush (1994), Fetish (1995), Here comes the Bride (1997), Off Duty (2001) and Seven Seals (2003).
Headley came to live in London at the age of 12 and after leaving school had a variety of jobs from market stallholder to songwriter/band member, journalist to hospital courier. Headley's attempts to write a screenplay became his first novel, Yardie, which describes the life of a Jamaican courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London. The book helped to launch The X Press, a black-owned publisher. Headley has sold over half a million copies across five titles, in five languages worldwide.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n born British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
author. He is the author of the bestselling Yardie (1992), as well as Excess (1993) Yush (1994), Fetish (1995), Here comes the Bride (1997), Off Duty (2001) and Seven Seals (2003).
Headley came to live in London at the age of 12 and after leaving school had a variety of jobs from market stallholder to songwriter/band member, journalist to hospital courier. Headley's attempts to write a screenplay became his first novel, Yardie, which describes the life of a Jamaican courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London. The book helped to launch The X Press, a black-owned publisher. Headley has sold over half a million copies across five titles, in five languages worldwide.