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Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius 9781910383667
RRP: $23.21$18.32Apologies 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 -
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
RRP: $14.18$8.46From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today.You're British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your... -
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman
RRP: $14.18$7.96A NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA searing portrait of Britain's hostile environment by the journalist behind the Windrush expose. 'A timely... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali 9781788735803
RRP: $16.76$10.94The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And,... -
How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics by Hein de Haas 9780241632215
RRP: $21.92$17.42Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration'An important book that will force Left and Right alike to reconsider old assumptions' The Telegraph'This book should be falling out... -
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker
RRP: $25.80$17.21A 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 deepest faultline. There is a... -
Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir by Hua Hsu 9781035036370
RRP: $14.18$9.18A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir.'A quiet, occasionally hilarious, ultimately devastating book . . . the most moving and memorable... -
Boy 87 by Ele Fountain
RRP: $11.60$7.51Boy87 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... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
RRP: $14.18$9.44***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The TimesEmerging... -
Solito: The New York Times Bestseller by Javier Zamora 9780861544721
RRP: $15.47$9.18A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Solito is my travel book of the year.' Telegraph 'Heartbreaking... A rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing.' Lea Ypi 'If there's any justice, Solito will someday be considered a... -
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin 9781804710715
RRP: $16.76$11.04Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against... -
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince 9780141997681
RRP: $14.18$10.02Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet'... -
An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London - Updated Edition by Catherine Dunne
RRP: $16.76$11.73New 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 Ferriter. Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home... -
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
RRP: $20.63$14.98'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, unflinching and engrossing book tackles uncomfortable... -
How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics by Hein de Haas 9780241632208
RRP: $32.25$23.25Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration'An important book that will force Left and Right alike to reconsider old assumptions' The Telegraph'This book should be falling out... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes
RRP: $14.18$10.02A complete guide to the British Way of Life. If you're British, you'll love it. If you're not, you'll recognise it._______Born in Hungary, George Mikes spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign... -
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker 9780008499211
RRP: $14.18$9.35A 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 deepest faultline. There is a... -
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
RRP: $14.18$9.75An optimistic account of how the Nordic countries can teach us to live easier, healthier, happier lives. From childcare to healthcare to provision for the elderly and the homeless, the Nordic countries are world leaders in organising society - no... -
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: $14.18$9.37First published in 2016, The Good Immigrant has since been hailed as a modern classic and credited with reshaping the discussion about race in contemporary Britain. It brings together a stellar cast of the country's most exciting voices to reflect on why... -
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders
RRP: $12.89$9.17*Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022*'This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday TimesIf you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old... -
No Friend but the Mountains: The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee by Behrouz Boochani
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man's Six Year Detention in Australia 'A powerfully vivid account of the experiences of a refugee: desperation, brutality, suffering, and all observed with an eye that seems to see everything and... -
Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Trevor Phillips 9780008609702
RRP: $16.76$10.94The 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 Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the... -
Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means for You by Parag Khanna
RRP: $14.18$9.55Where 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 tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse,... -
Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany by Esra Özyürek 9781503635562
RRP: $33.53$28.43At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture-not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and... -
Bad Diaspora Poems: ‘A once in a generation poet’ Caleb Femi by Momtaza Mehri 9781787334373
RRP: $19.34$14.13Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt.***WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION******A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Exceptional... Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twenty-first... -
Kurdish Women's Stories by Houzan Mahmoud
RRP: $21.92$14.89'A fascinating, inspiring journey' - Meredith Tax, author of A Road Unforeseen Kurdistan has had a tumultuous history, and the women who lived there have experienced a life like no other. From Saddam Hussein's reign of terror beginning in the 1960s,... -
The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi
RRP: $16.76$11.73Now with a new paperback introduction'Vital reading' Daily Telegraph'It turns conventional wisdom on its head' Peter Oborne'Uniquely insightful' Sunday Times'Eloquent, calm and clever' Andrew MarrBritain has often found groups within its borders whom it... -
The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus by Lucy Fulford 9781399711173
RRP: $28.38$18.78'A lyrical and penetrating examination of what happened to one family and the Ugandan Asians more broadly' GILES FODEN'Fulford has put in the legwork ... The book is full of the sights, smells and tastes of what most remember as a lost utopia'... -
Miami by Joan Didion 9781783785247
RRP: $14.18$9.44This 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 this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores... -
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn 9781786077103
RRP: $11.60$8.32'Nicole Dennis-Benn is a treasure.' Nikesh Shukla, author of The One Who Wrote Destiny FROM AN AWARD-WINNING JAMAICAN NOVELIST COMES THIS BEAUTIFULLY LAYERED PORTRAIT OF MOTERHOOD, IMMIGRATION AND SACRIFICE Patsy yearns to escape the beautiful... -
Migrations: A History of Where We All Came From by DK
RRP: $32.25$22.02Discover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern world. This beautifully-illustrated book details the movement of people and cultures around the world - from the early migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa 50,000 years ago to modern refugee... -
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
RRP: $14.18$10.14Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather... -
They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
RRP: $24.50$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968170Author Ivan Van SertimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 9780141995151
RRP: $19.34$14.13'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better... -
Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw
RRP: $11.60$7.77'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to... -
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang 9780241514702
RRP: $14.18$10.02BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.' In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is... -
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
$28.78More 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 victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced... -
Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain by Robert Winder
RRP: $19.34$12.64The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important and inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the remarkable migrations that have founded and defined a nation... -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780241654538
RRP: $12.89$9.17'A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive' Sunday Times'You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody...