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A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle 9781847926739
RRP: £18.99£13.61What would life be like if we had the courage to say, 'I want something different'? 'Elegant, thoughtful, vulnerable, and inspiring' Elizabeth GilbertFrom a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful... -
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black by Harry Edward 9780300270976
RRP: £18.99£16.18"Harry Edward was a hugely talented athlete and an extraordinary man who fought all his life for justice and fairness in the face of repeated prejudice. His story is as powerful today as it was when he lived it and I urge everyone to read this book... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Hero Classics) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054807Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press Ltd -
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uche Blackstock 9780593491287
RRP: £25.00£16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491287Author Uche BlackstockFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes by Leon Diop 9781915071231
RRP: £11.99£7.59Covering historic and current figures from the worlds of the arts, sport, business, politics and social activism, Black and Irish will also find space to celebrate everyday heroes-lesser known figures making a difference in Irish communities today.About... -
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
RRP: £9.99£6.70WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs I have ever read' - Vivian Gornick, author of... -
Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation by Toni Pressley-Sanon 9781645470762
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645470762Author Toni Pressley-SanonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle by Rob Kenner
RRP: £20.00£19.33The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood... -
King of the Blues: The Life and Times of B. B. King by Daniel de Vise
RRP: £20.00£13.86'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues' President Barack Obama'One part of me says, "Yes, of course I can play." But the other part of me says, "Well, I wish... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880
RRP: £12.99£8.63Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched... -
Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart by Jarvis Jay Masters
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies 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 -
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David Harewood
RRP: £20.00£14.29One of the Observer's Best Memoirs of the Year and The Times Best Film and Theatre Books of the Year.'As a Black British man I believe it is vital that I tell this story. It may be just one account from the perspective of a person of colour who has... -
Black and White: The Way I See It by Richard Williams 9781476704210
RRP: £10.99£8.60The fascinating, "upfront and unapologetic" (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of Richard Williams, a businessman, tennis coach, subject of the major motion picture King Richard, and father to two of the greatest athletes and professional tennis champions of all... -
Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies 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 -
I am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin
RRP: £12.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434696Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book AwardsBaroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children's television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with the Queen?In... -
Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain by Natalie Morris
RRP: £9.99£6.80How does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form?What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you?Where do you belong if you are simultaneously seen as being 'too much' of one race and... -
Survival of the Thickest: Essays by Michelle Buteau
RRP: £10.99£7.00*Now a comedy series on Netflix!* From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and unapologetic frankness comes a book of "zesty and hilarious" (Publishers Weekly) essays for fans of Is Everyone Hanging Out... -
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022 by Andrea Elliott
RRP: £10.99£7.77Based 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... -
God Is Not a White Man: And Other Revelations by Chine McDonald 9781529349078
RRP: £16.99£9.58What does it mean when God is presented as male? What does it mean when - from our internal assumptions to our shared cultural imaginings - God is presented as white? These are the urgent questions Chine McDonald asks in a searing look at her experience... -
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
RRP: £9.99£6.70In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby's first... -
"The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State by John Winters 9780197578223
RRP: £22.99£19.56In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the... -
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel Joseph 9781541617865
RRP: £25.00£16.78Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the two most iconic figures of the Civil Rights movement. To most Americans, Malcolm and Martin represent contrasting political ideals -- self-defense vs. non-violence, anger vs. pacifism, separatism vs... -
God Is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland
RRP: £17.99£10.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062988799Author Christena ClevelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Amistad PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Don't Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable by Sarah Jakes Roberts
RRP: £13.99£11.66Popular speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Woman Evolve, Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to believe God's best is still possible.Everyone has... -
Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man by Guvna B
RRP: £14.99£9.70Men are bold. Men are brave. Men are strong in the face of fear. But what happens when that strength crumbles?Growing up on a council estate in East London, rapper Guvna B thought he knew everything he needed to know about what it means to be a man. But... -
The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.40__________'Essential reading' Rolling Stone'A must read. The best bit of literature currently out there on Kendrick Lamar' VICE __________Kendrick Lamar is at the top of his game.He has been described as perceptive, philosophical, unapologetic,... -
Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History by Joel Selvin
RRP: £12.99£8.18Their music changed pop history, but we've never known much about the people who made it...until now. "...a first-hand account of both the kaleidoscopic talent that drove Stone to the top and attracted so many people to him, and the madness that he soon... -
I Am Norwell Roberts: The story of the Met's first Black police officer by Norwell Roberts
RRP: £16.99£11.54Norwell Roberts, who became the Met's first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the rest of the country did - from a Daily Telegraph headline that read 'MET TO HAVE FIRST COLOURED POLICEMAN'. From that day forward his... -
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown 9781451631579
RRP: £20.00£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451631579Author Claude BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall
£15.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780849900419Author Ron HallFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm)... -
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
RRP: £9.99£7.11Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman, and woman of colour, to serve as Vice President of the United States.'A life story that genuinely entrances' Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists,... -
What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin 9781529071054
RRP: £20.00£14.69Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book AwardsBaroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children's television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with the Queen?In... -
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
RRP: £27.99£23.66In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham 9781571313508
RRP: £12.99£8.63"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored." From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a... -
Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
RRP: £14.99£9.53A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its... -
Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: £12.99£6.65The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained')Benjamin Zephaniah: 'A must-read. Her life... -
Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: £20.00£14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of US National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780812993547Author Ta-Nehisi CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House... -
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo) by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: £10.99£7.32The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained.')Benjamin Zephaniah: 'A must-read. Her life... -
Transformed: A Navy Seal's Unlikely Journey From The Throne Of Africa, To The Streets Of The Bronx, To Defying All Odds by Remi Adeleke
RRP: £14.99£9.70What would it take for one young Black man not only to rise above statistics but also become a Navy SEAL, actor, entrepreneur, writer, and successful husband and father?In Transformed, Remi Adeleke takes you back to stories from his childhood, from...