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Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu 9780385547772
RRP: £26.00£15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2023 and The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023.Book... -
Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson, III 9781631496141
RRP: £23.99£19.08A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than... -
The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of non-fiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
£17.12'A revelation' KATY HESSEL'Brilliant' OBSERVEROver one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leila Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through... -
Travels Through Blood and Honey: Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo by Elizabeth Gowing 9781904955900
RRP: £14.99£13.33Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to the newest country in the world a land of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of honey. Elizabeth Gowing is rushed to Kosovo, on a... -
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam
RRP: £14.00£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767904445Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A... -
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant by Michael Vatikiotis 9781474613194
RRP: £20.00£13.10The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened the door of opportunity for people living insecurely on the fringes of a turbulent Europe.The Middle East is... -
The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco by Professor of Sociology Joshua Gamson 9780312425692
RRP: £24.00£14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425692Author Professor of Sociology Joshua GamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal
RRP: £45.00£43.87Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's... -
Travelling with Pomegranates by Ann Kidd Taylor
RRP: £10.99£7.05From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS and her daughter comes a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages.Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter... -
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentleman's club by Julie Welch
RRP: £18.99£16.78The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s and 1980s as women moved up the ranks in Fleet Street for the first time. When Julie Welch called in her first ever football... -
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Thompson
RRP: £13.99£8.75The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the... -
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
RRP: £14.99£9.80'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... -
Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur by Halima Bashir
RRP: £12.99£8.18Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified... -
A Royal Affair: George III and his Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard
RRP: £12.99£9.09The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters... -
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo 9780063140189
RRP: £22.00£14.98NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You... -
We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to Be French by Emma Beddington
RRP: £9.99£7.06As 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:... -
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
RRP: £13.99£9.26The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school... -
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... -
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 -
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
£11.50New 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 Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging by Sharon Maas
RRP: £8.99£5.91'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the... -
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£6.23Born 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... -
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... -
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,... -
Just as I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson
RRP: £20.00£14.69"In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony"Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished,... -
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir by Toni Braxton 9780062293299
RRP: £18.99£14.27Apologies 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 -
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 -
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... -
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... -
Three Narratives of Slavery: Narrative of Sojourner Truth/Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl/The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative by Sojourner Truth 9780486468341
RRP: £8.49£7.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486468341Author Mary PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm)... -
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville by Reza Aslan
RRP: £23.99£21.46Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel...