My crime novel, All that glistens, is set in contemporary Leicester. I need a little help with the idiom of a black gangsta type. Any advice of web sites etc?

Posted: 11/10/2008 18:15:40

My crime novel, All that glistens, is set in contemporary Leicester. I need a little help with the idiom of a black gangsta type. Any advice of web sites etc?

Go to Leicester and hang out with black gangsta types, Rob. Or, as John suggests, make him a black gangsta type with an idiosyncracy - a cultured, librarian's voice, say. That would be an interesting contradiction, and it would spring you from the stereotype trap

Posted: 12/10/2008 13:10:22

I wonder what the idiom of a Leicester gangsta would be? Funny folk, down in Leicester, so my Sister's knowledge of St Annes in Nott'n'm's probably no use to yo. Gary Lineker's Dad spoke to me once. "Cauliflahrs, two fer a pahnd!" he said.

Shouldn't it be All that Glisters? Only joking.

Posted: 12/10/2008 13:17:03