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The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club by Julie Welch
RRP: £9.99£6.23When 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... -
My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire by Maurice White
RRP: £10.99£7.25Foreword by Steve Harvey and afterword by David FosterThe Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist... -
Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey 'Grant is an accomplished... -
Richmond Unchained: The Biography of the World's First Black Sporting Superstar by Luke G. Williams
RRP: £15.99£10.85Today Bill Richmond is largely unknown to the wider public, but he was one of the most significant sportsmen in history and one of the most prominent celebrities of Georgian times. Born into slavery in Staten Island, Richmond won his freedom as a young... -
Finding Peggy by Meg Henderson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Glasgow 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... -
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian by James H Cone 9781626983779
RRP: £20.99£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983779Author James H. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
Nina: a story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd
RRP: £12.99£8.56A BIG ISSUE BOOK OF THE YEAR This illuminating and defining biography from bestselling author Traci N. Todd, with illustrations from award-winner Christian Robinson, tells the story of Eunice Waymon, who grew up to become Nina Simone - and shares her... -
Here I Stand by Paul Robeson 9780807064450
RRP: £16.99£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807064450Author Paul RobesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 10mm -
Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting by John Tusa
RRP: £10.99£3.51John Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa's memoir is etched with candour. His account of two years of internecine warfare at the top... -
Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop by Leroy Logan
RRP: £16.99£12.68Closing Ranks tells of an illustrious career, giving a behind the scenes look at the workings of the Metropolitan Police. One of the founder members of the Black Police Association Charitable Trust, Leroy Logan has had first-hand experience of race... -
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature (Children/Young Adult) 2014. Short-listed for Delaware Diamonds Award (High School) 2014.Book... -
One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race by Yaba Blay
RRP: £27.00£18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073360Author Yaba BlayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz 9780857528803
RRP: £16.99£12.28'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.' BILL GATESAt age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she... -
Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw
RRP: £18.99£11.63'Beautiful... A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before' STYLISTA moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century... -
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
RRP: £9.99£7.06From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict.Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a blissful Sarajevo, where his childhood was consumed by... -
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O Yang 9780306903496
RRP: £35.00£23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306903496Author Jimmy O YangFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Da Capo PressPublisher Da Capo PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 25mm -
Wild Olives: Life in Majorca With Robert Graves by William Graves
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 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... -
Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: £12.99£8.75Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly-liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist... -
Yellow Star - Red Star: With Contributions from historian Laszlo Csosz by Agnes Kaposi
£18.85The story of a Hungarian Jewish girl, a slave labourer for the Nazis, educated under the Soviet occupation who escaped in 1956 to find work as an Electrical Engineer in the UK where she had a brilliant career.Book InformationISBN 9781916106680Author... -
By Any Means Necessary by Malcolm X 9780873487542
RRP: £14.00£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873487542Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 270g -
Ozzie's Odyssey by Oswald Tyson 9781460980255
RRP: £15.95£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460980255Author Oswald TysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay
RRP: £16.99£11.58A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have... -
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick 9781447289555
RRP: £10.99£7.71With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the author.It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell.When... -
Don't Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there by Daniel Rachel 9781409180722
RRP: £10.99£7.92The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national... -
The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life & Loves of Robert Bateman by Nigel Daly 9781908524386
RRP: £25.00£16.90When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. An increasingly mysterious, set of relationships emerged amongst its former... -
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance 9780008410964
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close 'The political book of the year' Sunday Times 'A frank,... -
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou 9781400066124
RRP: £26.00£15.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Literary Non-Fiction Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781400066124Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
RRP: £27.99£15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449382Author Daniel BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 217mm... -
They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler by Tom Quinn
RRP: £10.99£7.05During 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... -
Decoded by Jay-Z 9781400068920
RRP: £50.00£29.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (General) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781400068920Author Jay-ZFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House... -
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Groundbreaking ... It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ... a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post'He was a... -
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy by Albert "Prodigy" Johnson
RRP: £12.99£8.18From one of the greatest rappers of all time, the memoir of a life cut short, a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's Golden Era...In this often violent but always introspective memoir, Mobb Deep's Prodigy tells his much anticipated story of... -
My Hair is Pink Under This Veil by Rabina Khan 9781785906466
RRP: £16.99£12.28"In 1977, one of the girls at my infant school in Kent asked me if I was a golliwog. I said I wasn't sure. In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair... -
How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi
RRP: £12.99£8.49"This beautiful, romantic memoir grabs you from the first page and won't let you go. Told with heart, wit and quiet restraint, How We Met is the story of how we can transcend the expectations of others and arrange our own happiness in life and in love."... -
Before and After by Lisa Wingate
RRP: £9.99£6.48The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were YoursFrom the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society... -
Brown Girl in the Ring: Memoirs of a brown girl living in Scotland by Olukemi Ogunyemi 9781800310667
RRP: £14.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310667Author Olukemi OgunyemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi 9780062844927
RRP: £18.99£9.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062844927Author Yossi Klein HaleviFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 9780140447507
RRP: £9.99£9.78Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His "Thoughts... -
My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire by Maurice White 9780062329158
RRP: £20.00£18.31The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to... -
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest...