African American & Black

'A captivating epic fantasy from a major new talent' Anthony Ryan, author of Blood Song***ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME*** IN A WORLD CONSUMED BY ENDLESS WAR ONE YOUNG MAN WILL BECOME HIS PEOPLE'S ONLY HOPE FOR SURVIVAL.The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643629Author Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu BandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985594133Author Danielle MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Black Odyssey MediaPublisher Kensington Publishing

Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets the call. A town in Nevada has been annihilated and the Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf is claiming responsibility. Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction and the thought of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063330092Author Rae Giana RashadFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 408g

***GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLERS OF 2023*** THE TIMES - THRILLER OF THE MONTH****** MAIL ON SUNDAY - BEST NEW FICTION*** FINANCIAL TIMES - BEST NEW CRIME BOOKS***'A crackling good police procedural....fresh and exhilarating' STEPHEN KING'Gripping'...

Adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo2022 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist for Western Fiction 2021 Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award Finalist for Prose ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593714669Author James McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Adapted into the Oscar-nominated major motion picture, American Fiction.'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books'A classic.' The Times'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street Journal'Sublime . . . brilliant, uproarious . . . A wise novel about how we live...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315422Author Brendan SlocumbFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The supernatural tales of A M Burrage were recognised by contemporaries such as M R James and the critic E F Bleiler as some of the most imaginative and cleverly told ghost stories in the English language, and yet today his name haunts the fringes of the...

"Masterfully written and pitch perfect, Black Girls Must Be Magic is, simply, magic."-Good Morning AmericaIn this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life's challenges and...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, MAAME is the most moving debut of 2023 - and a heroine you'll never forget.*Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick**Apple Book of the Month**A 2023 Debut of the Year as chosen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315453Author Brendan SlocumbFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593499320Author Erin E. AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

*A Book of the Month Club Pick*NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH"Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."-Jesmyn WardA Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250833549Author Rasheed NewsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 149mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496709325Author Trice HickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

The classic, well-loved story of The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, masterfully brought to life by Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo and Zog. Three little pigs get busy to work - they must come...

**GET READY FOR COME AND GET IT - THE EXPLOSIVE NEW NOVEL FROM KILEY REID, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** _______________ 'Essential. This year's hit debut' - Guardian 'A biting tale of race and class' - Sunday Times 'I couldn't put this down' -...

'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian'Begs to be read' Spectator'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington BlackIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, MY NAME IS MAAME is the most moving debut - and a heroine you'll never forget.*Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick**Apple Book of the Month**A 2023 Debut of the Year as chosen...

***The phenomenal international bestseller that inspired the Oscar-nominated film***Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver . . .There's Aibileen,...

Meet Yinka. And Yinka's mum. And Yinka's aunties. Who are all asking . . . YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND? --------'Your bookself needs this . . . full of heart' Jendella Benson, Hope and Glory'Love story? Nah, more of a self-love story!' Reader *****Yinka...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show)'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times 'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNING AUTHOR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NOVEL OF 2016 | SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2016 FROM THE WINNER OF THE ASTRID LINDGREN MEMORIAL AWARD 2018 They used to be...

Marvin is an ordinary boy who loves spending time with Grandpa, reading comics, and making science experiments with his best friend Joe. But everything changes when he discovers a mysterious superhero suit hidden in the attic . . . to his amazement,...

Just as Alex Cross is beginning to feel that life is good and he is finally coming out of the depression he's been in since the death of his wife, he is called to Union Station train terminal - a man is on the loose, firing at random into the swarming...

A BLACK FATHER. A WHITE FATHER.TWO MURDERED SONS. A QUEST FOR VENGEANCE.*SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH** FINANCIAL TIMES CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR** BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2022*'Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important...

THE INSPIRATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULLIn the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and...

'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink...

'Amazing' Reese Witherspoon'Heart-rending' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'Luminous and moving!' Kate Quinn'Unforgettable' Kristen HarmelThe heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the...

This new edition of the Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary is an easy home and school reference tool. With words ordered by their initial phonic sound and colourful illustrations by Alex Brychta and the familiar Oxford Reading Tree characters, it helps...

Gunpowder, treason and a plot to destroy the British Empire... 1770. Delphine lives in the shadows of London: a secret, vibrant world of smugglers, courtesans and small rebellions. Four years ago, she escaped enslavement at great...

Today you're the train driver! Your job is to take the family into the city. Let's go! Enter a world of imaginative play with this fun and immersive insight into the role of a train driver. Children will love using their imagination to take the driver's...

Alex Cross is preparing to resign from the Washington Police Force. He's enjoying the feeling; not least because the Mastermind is now in prison. And Alex has met a woman, Jamilla Hughes, and he is talking about the future. Then John Sampson shows up at...

A series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and detective Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes. Although torn between dedication to his job and commitment to his family, Cross...

'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The TimesWINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTIONBased on a true story, Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three...