DiscoveReads author event with Amelia Gentleman

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DiscoveReads author event with Amelia Gentleman

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Join us for our DiscoveReads Book Festival at The Hold in Ipswich with author Amelia Gentleman!
Limited early bird tickets are available until Thursday 1st May for £3.00. General admission is £5.00 per ticket. 
 
Amelia Gentleman is a reporter and author of The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment. She won the Paul Foot award, Cudlipp award, an Amnesty award, journalist of the year British journalism awards and London press club print journalist of the year for Windrush investigations. She has also won the Orwell prize, feature and specialist writer of the year.
 
DiscoveReads book: The Windrush Betrayal by Amelia Gentleman
 
How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years? 

Amelia Gentleman’s exposé of the Windrush scandal – where thousands of British citizens were wrongly classified as illegal immigrants with life-shattering consequences – shocked the nation and led to the resignation of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary. Here, Amelia tells the full story for the first time.
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