Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
This is Europe: The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
RRP: £22.00£15.10A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion_____What does it now mean to call yourself... -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 9780140390315
RRP: £8.99£6.45One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in Penguin Classics.Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply... -
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
RRP: £14.99£12.55Much 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 influence has been largely overlooked. Insurgent Empire... -
Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it - in our education, how we travel, our healthcare,... -
An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
RRP: £14.99£8.94'OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!... So heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time. Loved it!' Goodreads ReviewerA powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be... -
Adua by Igiaba Scego
RRP: £8.99£6.45Once a young girl in Somalia who wanted to be in films and escape the domineering grasp of her father, Adua is now an "Old Lira," a woman who immigrated to Italy during the first wave in the 1970's. With the end of the Somalian civil war, Adua begins to... -
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives by Peter Orner
RRP: £14.99£12.91They arrive from around the world for countless reasons. Many come simply to make a living. Others are fleeing persecution in their native countries. Millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by living in the U.S. without legal status... -
A Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Tony Potter 9780717179442
RRP: £6.99£5.13The Great Famine, an Gorta Mor in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly outside Ireland, as around forty percent of the population were... -
The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape From War to Freedom by Nujeen Mustafa
RRP: £10.99£7.25Previously published as Nujeen The story that is inspiring the world. Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and travelled to Europe in a wheelchair. ... -
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED 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, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone... -
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman 9781529113556
RRP: £10.99£7.77**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, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global... -
The Modern Singhs: the True Story of a Marriage of Two Cultures by Abbey Singh
RRP: £10.99£7.89Abbey and Money Singh are better known as The Modern Singhs, Kiwi social media celebrities with a rich and tangled love story to tell.Shared through the eyes of this inspiring duo, The Modern Singhs reveals their experiences as migrants to New Zealand as... -
Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
RRP: £11.99£8.07In a time of war, what is the shape of love? Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have been wrenched from school and forced to abandon her books as her family flees to safety. In this unfamiliar, crowded and... -
Hakim's Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France by Fabien Toulme
RRP: £24.95£19.76The end of a journey, the beginning of a new life.-I'm Syrian, and I got here from Turkey.-Whoaaa! That's a hell of a trip!-You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago.After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach... -
Welcome to Britain: Fixing our broken immigration system by Colin Yeo
RRP: £10.99£7.71How would we treat Paddington Bear if he came to the UK today? Perhaps he would be a casualty of extortionate visa application fees; perhaps he would experience a cruel term of imprisonment in a detention centre; or perhaps his entire identity would be... -
Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali 9780393867978
RRP: £20.99£17.11This 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, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan,... -
What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin 9781529071054
RRP: £20.00£14.69Winner 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 girl from Trinidad end up lunching with the Queen?In... -
Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99£7.77A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ... -
Doro: Refugee, hero, champion, survivor by Brendan Woodhouse
RRP: £18.99£12.06'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... -
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
RRP: £10.99£7.71This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... -
The Only Gaijin in the Village by Iain Maloney 9781780277394
RRP: £10.99£7.72In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the... -
After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766
RRP: £10.99£7.32A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with... -
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs 9781509883622
RRP: £9.99£7.06'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 Alexia Arthurs' debut book about Jamaican immigrants and... -
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain by Raquel Vega-Duran 9781611487428
RRP: £45.00£41.20Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain's own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in... -
The Diversity Illusion: How Immigration Broke Britain and How to Solve it by Ed West 9781908096319
RRP: £9.99£8.17We are supposed to love diversity as the panacea to the problems connected with mass immigration. In this thought-provoking book, Ed West investigates the heretical view that diversity is actual the scourge of our time rather than its saviour. He... -
Tales from Riding House Street: A faded London house and the Cypriots who lived in it by Helen Evangelou 9781916422308
RRP: £7.99£6.64In Riding House Street in the West End of London, a young Greek Cypriot couple, Photis Evangelou and Vasilou Ktori, carved out a life for themselves through the Depression, World War II and into the Swinging Sixties. London's burgeoning Greek Cypriot... -
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands by Stuart Hall 9780141984759
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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 extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781529111996
RRP: £12.99£9.09From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.'One of the greatest writers of... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont 9781509845453
RRP: £25.00£21.79A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than... -
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England by Jason Cowley 9781529017786
RRP: £20.00£17.62A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2022'I can't tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn't have an axe to grind . . . an essential read.' The Sunday Times'Subtle, sophisticated . . . compellingly told ... -
The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, Guardian In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail... -
Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell 9780465045891
RRP: £22.99£16.28Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a... -
Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines by Tim Ingold
RRP: £47.99£41.81Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia... -
The Presidents' Letters: An Unexpected History of the Irish State by Flor MacCarthy
RRP: £22.99£16.68Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 1938 TO THE PRESENT DAY With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs,... -
The Day I Fell Off My Island by Yvonne Bailey-Smith 9781912408955
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408955Author Yvonne Bailey-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora by Billy Kay
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Thaim wi a guid Scots tongue in their heid are fit tae gang ower the warld' In The Scottish World, renowned broadcaster Billy Kay takes us on a global journey of discovery, highlighting the extraordinary influence the Scots have had on communities and... -
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
RRP: £23.99£20.51Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magon, the magonistas were a motley band of... -
The Wolves are Coming Back: The Politics of Fear in Eastern Germany by Rebecca Pates
RRP: £25.00£17.62Across Eastern Germany, where political allegiances are shifting to the right, the wolf is increasingly seen as a trespasser and threat to the local way of life. Styled by populist right-wing actors as an 'invasive species', the wolf evokes and resonates... -
Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel
RRP: £9.99£6.80Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old... -
Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy
RRP: £10.99£7.32THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 'Remarkable' The Times'Achingly beautiful' GuardianBeautiful in unusual and wonderful ways' Rebecca SolnitThis book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s...