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Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius 9781910383667
RRP: £17.99£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383667Author Lyn JuliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo by Mansoor Adayfi
RRP: £25.00£15.95At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Gauntanamo Bay, where he spent the next 15 years as Detainee... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
RRP: £7.99£4.47How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH SILVERMAN 'a masterpiece.'STEPHEN FRY ... -
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £16.99£10.21The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam... -
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden 9780008445614
RRP: £10.99£6.10WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read' SALLY ROONEY The treatment of refugees... -
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Teresa Aranguren 9781642599800
RRP: £35.00£24.04A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian society prior to occupation.This book tells the story, in both English and Arabic, of a land full of... -
In Pursuit Of Revolutionary Love by Joy James
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739843106Author Joy JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani Mahtani 9780306830365
RRP: £25.00£15.55Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. "One... -
Doro: Refugee, hero, champion, survivor by Brendan Woodhouse
RRP: £18.99£12.61'This is Doro and he is beautiful.'So begins the extraordinary story of Doro Goumaneh, who faced an unimaginable series of adversities on his journey from persecution in The Gambia to refuge in France.Doro was once a relatively prosperous fisherman, but... -
Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story by Lene Wold 9781771644372
RRP: £19.99£13.56A shockingly intimate look at the world of honor killings, as seen through the eyes of both the perpetrators and the victims. What drives a person to murder their sister, mother, or daughter? What is life like in a society in which women are... -
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £9.99£7.11Co-authored by two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, an indispensable book for understanding the situation in Gaza right nowWhat is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which is more... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781784871512
RRP: £14.99£10.95'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ... -
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
RRP: £14.99£9.72These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are 'essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack ObamaThe riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long... -
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
RRP: £20.00£13.34Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants-most of them young men-from... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781843430858
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to... -
Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom by Maya Wind 9781804291740
RRP: £19.99£13.33Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli... -
Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
RRP: £9.99£6.64Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim... -
White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners - WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 by Narges Mohammadi 9780861548767
RRP: £11.99£8.00Fourteen women testify to the shocking human rights abuses in Iranian prisons WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore-Gilbert ... -
Boy 87 by Ele Fountain
RRP: £8.99£5.82Boy87 is an original and beautifully written page-turner of a novel about love, survival and the strength that can be found in a hopeful human spirit' -- Sarah Crossan, Carnegie Medal Winner 'Shif is an unforgettable character, and his story... -
The Spinning House: How Cambridge University locked up women in its private prison by Caroline Biggs 9781803995700
RRP: £20.00£14.71"Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life." - The New StatesmanCambridge University is renowned worldwide for its academic prowess, but below the surface lurks a murky past. During... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
RRP: £9.99£7.11Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern Classics.From hustling, drug addiction and armed... -
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she... -
Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Munroe Bergdorf
RRP: £16.99£11.47WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: POLITICS 'A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth Day 'Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise. Beautifully real.' Attitude 'Transitional is a clever, moving book that... -
Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? by Jan Matti Dollbaum 9781787388642
RRP: £14.99£13.33A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 A Financial Times Politics Book of the Year 2021 A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies. Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for... -
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTSIn this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz... -
The Power In The People: How We Can Change The World by Michael Mansfield 9781800961449
RRP: £14.99£9.32'A lifetime spend fighting the powers that be and turning personal pain into collective power. Take care of this book because you are holding our history in your hands.' - LOWKEY'Michael Mansfield is the greatest civil liberties lawyer this country has... -
The Girls in the Glen: An unputdownable Scottish mystery by Lynne McEwan
RRP: £8.99£5.82'A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction' Marion ToddIf the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s is... -
What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom by Arash Azizi 9780861547111
RRP: £20.00£12.86'A document of real optimism.' Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway - the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab... -
How To Be an Antiracist: THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £10.99£7.77Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. *THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER - NOW REVISED AND UPDATED*In HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world's most influential scholars on racism, demolishes the idea of a... -
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer
RRP: £16.99£14.20Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of... -
The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I beseech you to read this account' - Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentration camp to escape the 'hermit kingdom' and tell his... -
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela 9781408703113
RRP: £25.00£16.55'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times'Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and... -
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
RRP: £9.99£6.87In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.'Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed'A... -
Truth to Power: How to Call Time on Bullsh*t, Speak Up & Make A Difference (The Sunday Times Bestseller) by Jess Phillips
RRP: £12.99£8.18THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER'Will ruffle some feathers.' Stylist'There's nobody else at Westminster quite like Jess Phillips. She is fearless and funny, riotous and rebellious, maverick and mischievous.' The Times'Jess Phillips is a heroine' J.K. Rowling... -
Discrimination Law by Sandra Fredman FBA KC 9780198859277
RRP: £47.95£40.85This book is a challenging, thought-provoking yet highly accessible introduction to discrimination law. It takes a thematic approach, illuminating the major issues in discrimination law, while imparting an in-depth understanding of the strengths and... -
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
RRP: £10.99£8.17The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of Fully Connected_______________________________We all have... -
The Abolition Of Liberty by Peter Hitchens 9781843541493
RRP: £10.99£7.32'It's fair to say that Peter Hitchens remains one of the most misrepresented figures in the British media... Hitchens is in reality one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent commentators on life in contemporary Britain' -- Neil Clark, Spectator... -
Blackstone's Statutes on Public Law & Human Rights by John Stanton 9780198890409
RRP: £15.99£15.63Unsurpassed in authority, reliability and accuracy; Blackstone's Statutes, trusted by students for over 30 years. Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With a... -
The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr by Martin Luther King, Jr.
RRP: £12.99£8.18With knowledge, spirit, good humour and passion, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues and still inspire the desires, hopes and dreams of us... -
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
RRP: £10.99£7.71This is the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape. A gripping, terrifying biography, Escape from Camp 14 by journalist Blaine Harden uncovers a dark and secret nation.Now a major documentary film...