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Sushi Chef: Sukiyabashi Jiro by Shinzo Satomi
RRP: €28.55€18.91Apologies 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: €10.70€7.24Valtesse 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: €107.10€98.91This 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: €10.10€8.70Apologies 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: €28.55€24.41Little 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... -
Nairn In Darkness And Light by David Thomson
RRP: €19.03€13.82Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of... -
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice by Anthony Ray Hinton 9781250309471
RRP: €22.60€13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250309471Author Anthony Ray HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)... -
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley
€18.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781439190463Author Robin D G KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint The Free... -
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
RRP: €11.89€11.13Something 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... -
Aphro-Ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters by Aph Ko 9781590565551
RRP: €22.60€16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590565551Author Aph KoFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee
RRP: €19.03€13.82As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and... -
Tecumseh: A Life by John Peter Sugden 9780805061215
RRP: €34.51€24.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805061215Author John Peter SugdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)... -
Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir by George Clinton
RRP: €22.60€15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476751085Author George ClintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 155mm * 36mm -
My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Brendan Dougherty
RRP: €26.17€17.47Many Americans today, of all backgrounds, lack a clear sense of cultural heritage or even a vocabulary for expressing this lack. And as the national conversation about identity becomes increasingly polarized, people tend to avoid talking about their... -
All in One Basket: Nest Eggs by by Deborah Devonshire
RRP: €15.46€10.23Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of 'occasional' writings - Home to Roost and Counting my Chickens.The pieces are broad... -
How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
RRP: €11.89€7.90Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has over thirty years' experience being black. Now, through stories of his... -
Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener
RRP: €15.46€10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632061591Author Gabriela WienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
RRP: €49.98€35.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859525Author Matika WilburFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: a Russian adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker 9781912854073
RRP: €22.60€20.44'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in... -
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
RRP: €13.08€5.60An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes... -
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village by Peggielene Bartels 9780307742810
RRP: €20.17€19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742810Author Peggielene BartelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Decoded by Jay-Z
RRP: €35.70€25.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981155Author Jay-ZFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 919gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 188mm *... -
The Portable Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: €15.46€10.82A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader.The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction. His... -
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided (Updated with New Material) by Diane Guerrero
RRP: €22.60€17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250134967Author Diane GuerreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely by C. Vann Woodward
RRP: €14.27€10.28Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme... -
For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for her Stolen Child by Jean Sasson
RRP: €11.89€8.46From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: €11.89€7.97Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to... -
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
RRP: €11.89€8.09In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and... -
Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller by John D. Niles 9781496841582
RRP: €35.64€28.71Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson,... -
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
RRP: €20.23€11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525434955Author Eli SaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher... -
The Last Lancer by Catherine Czerkawska
RRP: €15.46€10.23An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family's large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic... -
Fuse by Hollay Ghadery
RRP: €18.98€14.13Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of... -
It Takes Two: The Rivals, Romantics and Risk Takers that History Forgot by Cathy Newman
RRP: €11.89€7.90'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 ... -
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
RRP: €22.61€13.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues by Peter Hughes 9780711266124
RRP: €23.80€16.36Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statues, forgetting that what begins with the destruction of statues, often leads to the killing of people... -
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung 9781936787975
RRP: €29.74€19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936787975Author Nicole ChungFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult -
Blind Lemon Jefferson: His Life, His Death, and His Legacy by Robert L Uzzel 9781571686565
RRP: €15.47€14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571686565Author Robert L UzzelFormat PaperbackImprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 227g -
Beijing Bastard: Coming of Age in a Changing China by Val Wang
RRP: €19.03€13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409426Author Val WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
RRP: €32.07€16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525657743Author Michelle ZaunerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
RRP: €22.61€18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385198707Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...