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The Adventures of a Black Edwardian Intellectual: The Story of James Arthur Harley by Pamela Roberts 9781838463069
RRP: £20.00£17.46Scholar, reverend, politician, and perhaps aristocrat... James Arthur Stanley Harley was certainly a polymath. Born in a poor village in the Caribbean island of Antigua, he went on to attend Howard, Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities, was ordained a... -
Desert Children by Waris Dirie
RRP: £10.99£7.05Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away through the desert; being discovered by Terence... -
165 Days: Prisoner of the Taliban by Asad Qureshi
RRP: £27.99£18.02British documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi works in the world's most dangerous places. When he set off to film secret interviews with Taliban commanders, the award-winning filmmaker found himself on the wrong end of the camera lens, with a gun at his... -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha 9780008498764
RRP: £25.00£18.02WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia by Robert Macklin
RRP: £14.99£9.32'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: An Almost True Account by Matt Taibbi 9781682194065
RRP: £16.99£11.67In real life, there is a person like "Anonymous", who, for the sake of this story, I'll call Huey Carmichael. I was friends with this person for a while before I learned about his other life. The real Huey knows more than a thing or two about the weed... -
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin
RRP: £19.99£18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492679011Author Nefertiti AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, Inc -
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478258Author Patty KrawecFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica by Lennox Honychurch
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica's Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of... -
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
£11.44New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize * Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist * Books for a Better Life Award Finalist * Lambda Literary Award Finalist * Time Magazine "30 Most Influential People on the Internet" * American... -
Hope is a Woman's Name by Amal Elsana Alh'jooj
RRP: £16.99£10.45At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her 'Amal'- meaning 'Hope'- in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous... -
The Rebellious Life Of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis 9780807076927
RRP: £18.99£12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807076927Author Jeanne TheoharisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs by Tom Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.48Born 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... -
Character Breakdown by Zawe Ashton
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's worldZawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has... -
What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry by Stephanie Saldaña 9781506484211
RRP: £18.99£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506484211Author Stephanie SaldanaFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
RRP: £10.99£7.00WINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARD"Jones's voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down." NPR'S Fresh Air Jones tells the story of a young, black,... -
Dreams of a Refugee: From the Middle East to Mount Everest by Mostafa Salameh
RRP: £10.99£8.15Dreams of a Refugee is the extraordinary story of Mostafa Salameh, born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugees. After a childhood in the camps and a series of low-paid jobs, Mostafa was given a rare opportunity to travel to London, working in hospitality... -
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo 9781838954956
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and... -
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant by Michael Vatikiotis
RRP: £9.99£6.48In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a... -
Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah by Kathy Iandoli 9781982156848
RRP: £27.00£16.95The definitive biography of Aaliyah-the talented R&B singer and artist whose tragic death at only twenty-two years old shocked the entertainment world and solidified her as an unforgettable music legend, featuring new in-depth research and exclusive... -
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore 9780008331924
RRP: £14.99£13.45A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small... -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: £10.99£7.25WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced... -
The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power and Purpose by Porsha Williams 9781546015901
RRP: £22.00£13.28Porsha Williams is a remarkable voice in the television and podcast communities. In The Pursuit of Porsha, she takes readers on a deeply personal journey as she searches for happiness and self-acceptance, giving fans a first-hand look into the defining... -
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition by Ida B Wells 9780226691428
RRP: £19.00£16.95"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of... -
A Mind Spread Out On The Ground by Alicia Elliott
RRP: £18.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198668Author Alicia ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir by Toni Braxton 9780062293299
RRP: £18.99£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062293299Author Toni BraxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198502Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar by Barbara D. Savage 9780300270273
£28.18A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual... -
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression by Nana-Ama Danquah 9781324050612
RRP: £14.99£11.45When Nana-Ama Danquah, a twenty-two-year-old single mother, began to suffer from a variety of depressive symptoms after giving birth to her daughter, she thought she was going crazy. Determined to portray strength in a world that often undervalues Black... -
The Black Book by Middleton A. Harris
RRP: £30.00£19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400068487Author Middleton A. HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House InternationalPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
RRP: £17.99£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063138322Author JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir 9780008464479
RRP: £9.99£6.64'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Letters to Gil is... -
On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Usakligil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909-1912 by Douglas S. Brookes
RRP: £29.99£25.99"When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne... -
My Crazy Century by Ivan Klima
RRP: £16.99£11.98More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klima's generation. Klima's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp... -
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race by Esi Edugyan
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A remarkable set of essays unlike anything else' - Kadish Morris, Guardian As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. Written with... -
Sushi Chef: Sukiyabashi Jiro by Shinzo Satomi
RRP: £23.99£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942993278Author Shinzo SatomiFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Vertical, Inc.Publisher Vertical, Inc.Weight(grams) 541g -
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
RRP: £8.99£6.08Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip... -
Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction by Victoria Aarons 9781498517164
RRP: £90.00£83.12This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally... -
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James 9781538753484
RRP: £25.00£15.55"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best... -
I'm Not Broken: A Memoir by Jesse Leon
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593466513Author Jesse LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc