Beast by Ally Kennan Marion Lloyd/Scholasticc, £6.99) His father's a drunken vagrant, his absent mother's "a nutter" and Stephen is harbouring a 12-foot primaeval beast caged (for the present) in a reservoir.
In her mind, they saw Ford, Jr., as just another angry black vagrant, his death unworthy of their attention.
John Healy's visceral telling of his journey from vagrant wino living in the London gutters of the 1960s to chess champion is one of the most powerful stories of hope and redemption I have ever read.
In No Man's Land, his sly literary vagrant in search of a billet - the model of bohemian seediness with a cigarette forever between his lips - cast off the familiar Gielgud persona as thoroughly as he did for his 1936 Merchant Of Venice and the 1961 Othello.
Born in Sweden in 1493, a quarter century before the German Reformation, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim orbited a wealthy and powerful class of physicians, but his unorthodox views made him a virtual "vagrant" among his peers.
And he did eat dog food ("gourmet dog food") for a week to prepare for his role as a vagrant in Down And Out In Beverly Hills.
In the book, she writes: "He had not yet become the penniless vagrant of his later films, but the cast-off clothes were already there as well as certain mannerisms such as thumbing his nose, twirling on one leg and his jaunty gait".
