African American & Black

Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature due to its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957913131Author Pamela R HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Hear Our Voice LLCPublisher Hear Our Voice LLCWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2017 and Arthur C. Clarke Award 2017 and Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize 2017 and National Book Award 2016 and...

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...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but...

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 Destiny BooksPublisher Destiny BooksWeight(grams) 404g

"A brilliantly entertaining collection showcasing a wealth of women's voices," ALEX SCOTT MBE FOREWORD BY GABBY LOGAN MBE Edited by Charlotte Atyeo Curated by Ian Ridley From the doyenne of football writing Julie Welch's brilliantly illuminating...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946336002Author Kim Cash TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Faith/Love PressPublisher Faith/Love Press

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what's going to happen next' GUARDIAN 'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISON 'Devilishly funny and academically solid:...

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601625212Author JaQuavis ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 189g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496727787Author Valerie Wilson WesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622865031Author AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593440292Author Marie BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Upon his return from India, Alexander the Great travelled to the Persian royal city of Pasargadae to pay homage at the tomb of King Cyrus, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, whom he admired greatly. Disgusted to find Cyrus' tomb desecrated and...

The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home. Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman...

From the bestselling author of Memorial, a novel that will 'break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy.' Rumaan AlamGrowing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954767232Author Robbi ReneeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Love Notes by Robbi ReneePublisher Love Notes by Robbi ReneeWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803140803Author Suzette D HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528719995Author Alice Dunbar NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Read & Co. ClassicsPublisher Read & Co. ClassicsWeight(grams) 195g

A satirical and daring collection of short stories exploring black life from one of America's rising stars. ...

'Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book's a gift' Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout 'An ode to girlhood' Raven Leilani, author of Luster A fiercely...

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...

SOON TO BE FEATURED ON THE GRAHAM NORTON BOOK CLUB PODCAST ON AUDIBLEDiscover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a ten-year-old boy convicted of the...

'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York TimesA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063218079Author Rita CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

This Will Do... is a gripping story of three young people whose attempts to make a life for themselves are at times misdirected, sometimes self-defeating, and now and again sufficiently successful to make something that "will do." Ogden's writing is...

The New York Times bestselling book behind the HBO Series from J.J. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out).A blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Matt...

Collector's Edition featuring digital signatures from Jordan Peele and contributors, exclusive sprayed edges, printed boards and end papers.'Not only likely to be the best anthology of the year, but one for the ages' The GuardianThe New York Times...

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma and an unravelling America? What it's always been - a love song. Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an America that's coming...

Find out how far these divas will go to stay on top in the sexy thriller that inspired the BET show Games People Play. When entertainment writer Nia Bullock loses her job and her live-in boyfriend, she flees LA for Manhattan and a gig as...

'A gripping call to action—and a daring triumph of a novel' ADORAH NWORAH 'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN 'A playful, powerful debut' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS A RAZOR-SHARP NOVEL...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451611922Author Terrance DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 283g

All technologies depend on the availability of suitable materials. The progress of civilisation is often measured by the materials people have used, from the stone age to the silicon age. Engineers exploit the relationships between the structure,...