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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Heartland Award 2011 and... -
An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London - Updated Edition by Catherine Dunne
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.46New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid... -
The Day I Fell Off My Island Yvonne Bailey-Smith 9781838386047
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2022 and RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2022 and Society of... -
What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin 9781529071054
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book AwardsBaroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children's television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did... -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Essential and definitive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLEWe are in a new era.From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi,... -
Asylum Speakers: Stories of Migration From the Humans Behind the Headlines by Jaz O'Hara
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50"Asylum Speakers is truly an anthology of humanity. It's a reminder of how much we all have in common and that each of us has an equal right to be safe." - Josie Naughton, founder of Choose LoveBased... -
Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom BillionMass international migration is a response to... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes 9780140081794
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first... -
The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S. Donnelly 9780750929288
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.79In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing... -
Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali
Booksplease Price: $20.06This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up,... -
Miami by Joan Didion 9781783785247
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but... -
Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia by Colin Grant
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.62A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ... -
Easy Meat: Inside the British Grooming Gang Scandal by Peter McLoughlin 9781943003068
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943003068Author Peter McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint
The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry by R. B. Fleming 9780920474969
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $26.80For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of...
Migrations and Diasporas: Struggling Between Inclusion and Exclusion by William Arrocha 9781837971473
Booksplease Price: $115.17Engaging with the complex natures of space and belonging, Migrations and Diasporas provides a means for understanding the plight of migrants and diasporas as they move through a world divided between...
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.99Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse...
Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a...
Asian Britain: A Photographic History by Susheila Nasta 9781908906113
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.44South Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing...
Your Heart, My Hands: An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons by Arun K. Singh MD
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a twenty-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream...
The Price of Water in Finistere by Bodil Malmsten
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have...
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'We need books like this' Literary Review'Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind.'Taking us from English suburbs to Parisian housing estates, this provocative,...
Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means for You by Parag Khanna
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like in 2050?Mobility is a recurring feature of human civilisation. Now, as climate change...
I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See: Photographs from the Refugee Crisis: 2017 by 9780863561795
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99A Scotsman Best Photography Book of 2017 Texts by Filippo Grandi, UN High Comissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, and Robert Del Naja, Massive Attack In October 2015, Giles Duley was commissioned by the...
The Last Million by David Nasaw
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110996Author David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands by Stuart Hall 9780141984759
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the...
Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption,...
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns by Dohra Ahmad
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.89Spanning a period of over three hundred years and twenty-five countries, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature is a wide-ranging anthology that brings together well-known authors such as Mohsin...
The Next Great Migration: The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet by Sonia Shah
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN 'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER 'A dazzling tour through 300...
Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.98This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and...
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs 9781509883622
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.37'In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love.' - Zadie SmithTenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret - these are the tensions at the heart of...
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves by David Matthews 9781788701761
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from...
Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist Hassan Akkad 9781529059816
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.26A poignant and powerful memoir from BAFTA award-winning filmmaker, Syrian refugee, hospital cleaner and activist, Hassan Akkad.I've experienced the best and worst of humanity. I've been detained and...
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.79More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone noticed or remembers Immediately after the Second World War, the...
Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02*Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize 2021**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021: A 'tour-de-force'**An Irish Times and Poetry School Book of the Year 2020*'A day will come when...
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming...
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.73A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's...
The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel 9781509553778
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.60In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.05The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural...
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.39SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian'Groundbreaking, sophisticated,...
Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Trevor Phillips 9780008609702
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the...