Gypsy, Roma Traveller

A selection of titles promoted to celebrate Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history month.

Fiction and non-fiction books for adult readers, and also several childrens' picture books by Richard O'Neill.

Browse our collection of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller related eAudio and eBooks at this link: Kirklees Libraries' eAudio and eBook collection

Updated May 20, 2024
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Bury me standing : the Gypsies and their journey
Fonseca, Isabel.
Paper Book
With 50 illustrations and 3 maps.
A Gypsy in Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the 'Forgotten Holocaust'
Rosenberg, Otto
Paper Book
A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis...
Shared sorrows : a gypsy family remembers the Holocaust
Sonneman, Toby F.
Paper Book
On the morning after Kristallnacht, Toby Sonneman’s father walked through broken glass to apply for the visa that saved him from the fate of so many during the Third Reich. In examining her own family history, the author discovered the similarities between the fate of the Jews and...
Gypsy boy
Walsh, Mikey.
Paper Book
'It was a revelation. Moving, terrifying, funny and brilliant. I shall never forget it - an amazing achievement' STEPHEN FRY 'Brash and frightening and funny' NEW YORK TIMES * * * * * * The Sunday Times...
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
Winspear, Jacqueline
Paper Book
After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's...

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