Foreigners

*book read for uni* First and second story meh… third one top Some quotes ^In fact, there was nobody to talk to about how you really felt about things, so you just kept your mouth shut and pretend to behave and hoped that the drugs wouldn’t make you any more mad.^ ^he could have been safe and invisible......more

Pretty good and really bad at the same time? The last novella was so good in its core but the writing gave me whiplash......more

Interesting but patchy... The first story, about Samuel Johnson and Francis Barber, was well-written, but a story I already knew. The last story, about the murder of David Oluwale by the Leeds Metropolitan Police, was something I knew just a little about, but the scattershot nature of the prose was......more

For what it is, Foreigners: Three English Lives is a good book. It tells the story of the lives of three black Englishmen and their alienation, suffering, and eventual demises. Phillips' research is quite impressive and you will definitely learn a lot about black English history and the tribulations......more

A complex story that shares the lives of three black men. It’s said to be a book of fiction but sadly these stories run too close to the truth. Listening to this audio book was somewhat of a challenge for me, due to varied voices of narration that made the story both fascinating and intriguing. Exce......more