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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
RRP: £9.99£6.89NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR - AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the... -
Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds by Rich Paul 9780593448472
RRP: £28.00£17.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593448472Author Rich PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 217mm... -
Let This Radicalize You: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba
RRP: £14.99£10.13What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe... -
The Project by David Souden
RRP: £22.00£15.62An official BBC book that celebrates the life of Queen Elizabeth II through photographs, some rarely seen, drawn largely from archives of the BBC.The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Elizabeth II has been at the centre of British life... -
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022 by Andrea Elliott
RRP: £10.99£8.02Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £7.99£6.04'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my... -
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
RRP: £12.99£9.34A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Mightily impressive ... a marvellous read' Sunday TimesFrom the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining... -
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience and the Black Experience: An anthology by Tarana Burke
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tarana Burke and Dr. Brene Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artists, academics and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame... -
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: the bestselling South Korean therapy memoir by Baek Sehee
RRP: £9.99£7.24THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help... -
The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee by Gulwali Passarlay
RRP: £10.99£7.57*NOW UPDATED WITH EXTRA MATERIAL*The boy who fled Afghanistan and endured a terrifying journey in the hands of people smugglers is now a young man intent on changing the world. His story is a deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring tale of our times... -
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
£7.96With an introduction by author Anne Enright.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country... -
The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060525Author Ruth OzekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless BooksWeight(grams) 115g -
I, Eric Ngalle: One Man's Journey Crossing Continents from Africa to Europe by Eric Ngalle 9781912109104
RRP: £9.99£7.36Eric Ngalle thought he was leaving Cameroon for a better life... Instead of arriving in Belgium to study for a degree in economics he ended up in one of the last countries he would have chosen to visit - Russia. Having seen his passport stolen, Eric... -
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride 9780747538325
RRP: £10.99£8.02_______________ 'A triumph' - New York Times Book Review 'A startling, tender-hearted tribute to a woman for whom the expression tough love might have been invented' - The Times 'As lively as a novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to... -
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation by Mark Lee Gardner 9780062669902
RRP: £16.99£11.27"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and... -
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by Leta McCollough Seletzky
£19.11In the famous photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, one man kneels beside him, trying to staunch the blood. He was an undercover Memphis police officer who had infiltrated the Invaders, a potentially violent Black activist group then in... -
The Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life of John Lorne Campbell of Canna by Ray Perman
RRP: £9.99£7.24In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it becoming a rich man's playground (like so many other islands and Highland estates), to preserve a part of traditional Gaelic culture and show that efficient farming... -
The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs by Tom Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.73Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world, lit by candles and oil lamps, where you slept in your clothes - if you hadn't already been sewn into them for the winter - and fought an unending... -
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
RRP: £13.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105329Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 419g -
Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton
RRP: £14.95£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375878Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore 9780385528207
RRP: £16.99£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385528207Author Wes MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri
RRP: £10.99£7.57'A vital book for our times' ROBERT MACFARLANE'Unflinching, complex, provocative' NIKESH SHUKLA'A work of astonishing, insistent importance' ObserverAged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother, and lived in the crumbling shell of... -
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L Riley
RRP: £25.00£15.55Thomas Sowell has an almost godlike status amongst conservative intellectuals. "It's a scandal that economist Sowell has not been awarded the Nobel Prize," wrote a reviewer in Forbes. A profile in the Wall Street Journal described him as "one of... -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
RRP: £9.99£7.36Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to... -
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
RRP: £18.00£11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591061Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi 9781783966110
£6.90'A Stylist pick for best new non-fiction for 2021' "A sweet, touching memoir about family, faith and love. There's a purity and simplicity to Huma's writing, as she attempts to reconcile the sprawling weight of expectation with her own desire for a... -
The Good Fight by Shirley Chisholm
RRP: £12.99£8.73The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color-a work of immense historical importance that both captures and transcends its times, newly... -
My Life in Food: A Memoir by Albert Roux
RRP: £22.00£13.83In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and appreciate food in this country. It is no exaggeration to say that most of what makes our current culinary... -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole 9781529040326
RRP: £10.99£7.76Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu
RRP: £9.99£6.89The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing... -
They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler by Tom Quinn
RRP: £10.99£7.30During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet and butler.As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks, boil rabbits for the estate dogs, carry the wood up and down stairs every day for thirty fires... -
Reclaiming by Yewande Biala
RRP: £16.99£10.70Reclaiming is a brilliantly written and thought-provoking book. Through amazing story telling, Yewande highlights the richness in her culture that so many other black women can relate to. It was extremely gripping right from beginning. -- Oloni'This book... -
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99£9.34The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. The English Ghost is a treasure trove of... -
Seal Morning by Rowena Farre
RRP: £7.99£5.71At the age of 10, Rowena Farre left the security of her parents' home in India and was sent to live with her aunt on a lonely croft in the wild and remote Highlands of Scotland. During her stay in Sutherland, she drew strength from the isolation of... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
£6.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345350688Author MALCOLM XFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s by Barbara Blake Hannah
RRP: £9.99£6.77'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She finds... -
Black Klansman: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE by Ron Stallworth
RRP: £9.99£7.36* ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE * NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA * WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2018 * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What happens when a black... -
Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart by Jarvis Jay Masters
RRP: £15.99£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809114Author Jarvis Jay MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
My Body Is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta 9781597099691
RRP: £19.95£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597099691Author Elissa WashutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 340g -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano 9781529371864
RRP: £9.99£6.73Kidnapped and sold into slavery at the age of ten, Olaudah Equiano's memoir caused a sensation when it was first published in 1789. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is the true story of his life, from his ten years of service as a...