Reading

Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month is marked every June in the UK. 

Search the online catalogue to find or request these books in a library near you, or search Borrowbox to read for free online. 

Children’s fiction 

• The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas by David Almond 
• Muddy Waters by DH Clacher 
• Leaves in a Holocaust wind by Robert Dawson 
• Tuesday, Wednesday, quake day by Robert Dawson 
• The slug and the snail by Oein DeBhairduin 
• The Pavee and the Buffer Girl by Siobhan Dowd 
• The Dreamsnatcher series by Abi Elphinstone 
• Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant 
• Flight by Vanessa Harbour 
• Hercules the Younger by Kathryn James 
• The horse, the stars, and the road by Lucy Kelly-Desmond 
• A different kind of freedom: a Romani story by Richard O'Neill 
• The brilliant barber bus by Richard O'Neill 
• Halle had a hammer by Richard O’Neill 
• Parade of the pipers by Richard O'Neill 
• Polonius the pit pony by Richard O'Neill 
• The lost homework by Richard O'Neill 
• The can caravan by Richard O'Neill 
• Ossiri and the bala mengro by Richard O'Neill 
• Yokki and the Parno Gry by Richard O’Neill 
• Where the World Turns Wild by Nicola Penfold 
• Wee Bessie by David Pullar 
• The Show Must Go On by Michelle Russell 
• The Fairy Queen by Chrissy Donoghue Ward

Teenage fiction 

• Spokes: Stories from the Romani World by Janna Eliot 
• The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave 
• Gypsy Girl series by Kathryn James

Adult Fiction 

• Why the Moon Travels by Oein DeBhairduin 
• Fires in the Dark by Louise Doughty 
• The Gypsy Piano Tuner by Janna Eliot 
• Button Bog by Jess Smith

Adult Non-Fiction 

• Gypsy princess: the true story of a Romany childhood by Violet Cannon
• Scottish Traditional Tales edited by Alan Bruford and Donald A. MacDonald
• The Stopping Places by Damian Le Bas
• The Mystery In Being A Gypsy by Gentylia Lee
• Unsettled by Rosaleen McDonagh
• Gypsy Girl by Rosie McKinley
• Beneath the Blue Sky by Dominic Reeve
• Smoke in the Lanes by Dominic Reeve
• A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood by Rosemary Penfold
• Caravans and wedding bands: memories of a Romany life by Eva Petulengro
• The girl in the painted caravan: memories of a Romany childhood by Eva Petulengro
• A Gypsy In Auschwitz by Otto Rosenberg
• Old days and old ways by Maggie Smith-Bendell
• Rabbit stew and a penny or two by Maggie Smith-Bendell 

Poetry 

• Poetry of the Holocaust ed. by Jean Boase-Beier and Marian de Vooght 
• Apple Water: Povel Panni by Raine Geoghegan 
• They lit fires: Lenti hatch o yog by Raine Geoghegan