''Jungle West 11'' is a 1964 book by

Majbritt Morrison Majbritt Morrison (born 1933) is known for being the victim of an assault that sparked off the 1958 Notting Hill race riots which escalated from there, and as the author of the best-seller ''Jungle West 11''. Background She was born in Sweden. In ...

. The book was published through

Tandem Books Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd was a United Kingdom paperback publishing company established in the early 1960s as Tandem Books. History The company's principal imprint was Tandem. The hyphenated name Universal-Tandem was adopted as a corpo ...

and focused on Morrison's life and her account of the

Notting Hill race riots The Notting Hill race riots were a series of racially motivated riots that took place in Notting Hill, England, between 29 August and 5 September 1958. Background Following the end of the Second World War, as a result of the losses during the wa ...

, specifically the attack on her on Blechynden Street. The book has seen multiple publications and was re-published in the Netherlands in 2008, 44 years after its first printing in 1964.Catawik
Jungle West 11 2008
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Reaction to the book

Novelist

Stewart Home Kevin Llewellyn Callan (born 24 March 1962), better known as Stewart Home, is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. His novels include the non-narrative ''69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess'' (2002), an ...

questioned the validity of the claims in the book, saying: "While Morrison appears to have existed she was probably unable to produce a convincing account of her personal experiences because she received too much useful advice about content from an editor who was keen to help her write a best seller."

Publications

* ''Jungle West 11'',

, UK - 1964 * ''Jungle West 11'' (reprint), London, 1964 (as Majbritt Viola Morrison) * ''Jungle West 11 mijn leven als licht meisje in Londen'', De Arbeiderspers, Netherlands - 1966Catawik
Jungle West 11 1966
/ref> * ''Jungle West 11'', Award Books - A271S K - United States - 1967 * ''Jungle West 11'', Standaard - . - 2008

References

{{reflist, 2 1964 non-fiction books Autobiographies