NO PLACE TO HIDE: How I Put the Black in the Union Jack

Non-Fiction (Autobiography) 352 pages

Aurum Press - March 25, 2010

He was the "golden boy of British boxing" but Errol Christie's real life was one of family turmoil, constant street violence and racism in seventies and eighties Britain. NO PLACE TO HIDE lifts the lid on a Britain where black anger boiled over in to rioting in 1981 and 1985. A week before he appeared on television as an eighteen year old to snatch the ABA championship, Errol was throwing bricks at the police in the Coventry riots. This followed years of daily fights with the Coventry's "boot boys" and skinheads. Errol's life is the story of a black generation in Britain. The generation that came after Windrush. The children of those first arrivals. An untold story of those expected to go through life facing unchecked racism and abuse. And how they fought back.