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Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915338990Author Yllka Sinani ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint UK Book PublishingPublisher Consilience MediaWeight(grams) 364g

The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He catches the stories of a whole community,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954396241Author Noreen Anne RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger AdvertisingPublisher Barringer...

In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the...

'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, "Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?"' CAITLIN MORAN ...

'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...

Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey 'Grant is an accomplished...

Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947290693Author Deborah Vadas LevisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it passable. She'd done it. She was the first ever female...

Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other is acclaimed as the first true Arab nationalist. Her uncle was Prime Minister for nearly forty years, her mother an important politician. When...

The son of a "black" father and a "white" mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter-and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately...

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service...

A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ...

'Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story is a beezer! It's a stoatir, so it is!' Victor and Barry are the epitome of the expression 'big in the 80s'. Annoyingly, they were also a little big in the first bit of the 90s too, so that phrase doesn't...

'A monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint' The TimesMahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time. A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy of satyagraha, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774760482Author PlutarchFormat HardbackPage Count 1200Imprint Engage ClassicsPublisher Engage ClassicsWeight(grams) 152g

An unapologetic, brutal memoir from notorious 60s career criminal James Carr. BAD covers Carr's life from his first arrest for burning down his school at age 9, through merciless stints in San Quentin, where he shared a cell with famed Soledad Brother...

The emotional, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris—a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians From the heart of the Minnesota blues comes the story of James “Cornbread” Harris Jr., the songwriter, pianist, and...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max PorterBefore becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936533800Author Joseph B LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Fifth EstatePublisher Fifth EstateWeight(grams) 1320gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

A New Statesman 'most anticipated title of the year' 'Compelling.' David Lammy MP 'Refreshing,' Pragya Agarwal A powerful intervention roundly debunking...

As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only:...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993092725Author Lesley BlanchFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Book Blast ePublishingPublisher Book Blast ePublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

Archbishop Dennis Hurley was a heroic churchman, the Roman Catholic equivalent of Desmond Tutu. He was a courageous opponent of South Africa's apartheid regime for 50 years, dubbed 'an ecclesiastical Che Guevara' by a South African official and 'guardian...

* 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 BESTSELLERWhat happens when a black detective goes...

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political...

Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering...

WINNER OF THE 2021 NORTHBOUND BOOK AWARD 'Adam Farrer is a bold new voice in nonfiction writing. His keen observations are as gentle as they are wry, as attentive to the bleak truths of loss and deprivation as they are to the eccentric humour of humans...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A riveting, inspiring memoir from the star of Netflix's My Unorthodox Life'Haart is a hustler, a born entrepreneur, charismatic enough to attract investment like a pop ingenue attracts talent scouts and a fighter.' POLLY...

Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia.Here,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954525061Author Etsu Inagaki SugimotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Johnny Sexton - the man who pulled the strings for the Lions - gives an intimate insight into the rugby life in Becoming a Lion.With three Heineken Cups and one British and Irish Lions tour victory under his belt, Johnny Sexton is by some distance the...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525433026Author Abdi Nor IftinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

He has been called passionate and violent, cryptic and probing, hostile and eloquent. His works have been called brilliant and unbearable, poetic and documentary, classic and controversial. He is a major voice of the Civil Rights Movement. His words,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured as One of Summer's most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media. From the author of I Don't Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times...