African American & Black

Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison.A decade...

Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings and his dedication to meting out strict, impartial justice. Taking a break from his duty after a session of assizes, Ireton retreats to his seaside...

Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence.Atlanta, 1956.When Arthur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496730084Author Denny S. BryceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday TimesBased on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New...

'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority ... Schuyler's wild, misanthropic, take-no-prisoners satire of American life seems more relevant than ever ... Afrofuturist before such a term existed' New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679748212Author Gloria NaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A TOP TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Astonishing... A great work infused with love and honesty' Alice Walker, author of The Color...

When Sally Jones and The Chief discover a curious rose-shaped necklace hidden onboard their beloved Hudson Queen, it's the start of another perilous adventure for the seafaring gorilla and her faithful friend. Determined to get to the bottom of the...

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life impossible. Though he's recently been promoted to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496735959Author Donald GoinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250349026Author Crystal Smith PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778311027Author Morgan RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira Books

Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money - or it would if anyone could find it... Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet. Her partner rushes home to...

A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem aboundBig Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short falls out of a window trying to see a thief fleeing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616208776Author Tayari JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for 'book'-sefer in Hebrew, biblia in Greek, and liber in Latin-was identified with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525899782Author Shaunna J EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Graydon HousePublisher Graydon HouseWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451233424Author Terry McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm *...

WINNER OF THE SAGA PRIZE 1997: a literary award for trailblazing new Black British novelists'A quietly outstanding work of fiction . . . an exemplary novel' Bernardine Evaristo A shattering portrayal of family, guilt and unshakable bonds as a family's...

_________________A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645940074Author Harriet Beecher StoweFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams)...

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles.But when Easy is approached by a...

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled...

FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage'The prose is clear, the plot is page-turning, the characters are utterly believable' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'The first book by a black woman to sell more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593099667Author Abby ColletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645565079Author K'wanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062913166Author George CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,...

One of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2021."This trailblazing work of fiction is notable for its depiction of Harlem's African American society and culture in the 1930s" -Bookpage When the body of N'Gana Frimbo,...

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'This visionary and deeply evocative debut carves a radiant love story out of the bleakest of landscapes.' Waterstones - Best Books to Look Out For in 2021'An Outstanding novel' Guardian'A lyrical, poetic novel'...

Histories you can trust. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations...

New York Times bestseller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest ever challenge. It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. It's further outside the law...

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature 'Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision' Evening Standard 'Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of...

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739759308Author D G PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint D G PalmerPublisher D G PalmerWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 21mm

Explosive fantasy set in a West African world of magic and legend, where one girl must sacrifice her life, year by year, to gain the power necessary to live up to the expectations of the mother she has never been good enough for. ...

The humorous and heart-wrenching story of a woman's re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration, told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. "There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian...