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Touching Lives: Remarkable People and Places in the Western Algarve by Lena Strang 9780993438103
£27.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993438103Author Lena StrangFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Lena StrangPublisher Lena Strang -
Bad As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman
RRP: £7.99£5.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440222668Author Dennis RodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal 9781250811271
RRP: £18.00£11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250811271Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
RRP: £17.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684848280Author Mark MathabaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 331g -
Sephardi Voices: The Forgotten Exodus of the Arab Jews by Dr. Henry Green
RRP: £28.99£20.24In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an... -
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly 9780062363596
RRP: £18.99£17.77Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe--winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award--winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story... -
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues by Peter Hughes 9780711266124
RRP: £20.00£13.35Why 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... -
My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir by Fethiye Cetin 9781844678679
RRP: £12.99£11.31Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother's name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a... -
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace
RRP: £12.99£11.31Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by... -
Motherlands: In Search of Our Inherited Cities by Amaryllis Gacioppo
RRP: £20.00£14.29A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A remarkable literary debut . . . Part memoir, part travelogue, Motherlands is ultimately an investigation of how we come to understand the past at all' Guardian Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion... -
A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman by Wadad Makdisi Cortas
RRP: £15.99£7.82"This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old." So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the... -
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow 9780060566920
RRP: £22.99£18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 1987.Book InformationISBN 9780060566920Author David GarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
A Very British Muslim Activist: The life of Ghayasuddin Siddiqui by C Scott Jordan 9781912356379
RRP: £12.95£10.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912356379Author C Scott JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)... -
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin
RRP: £16.99£12.07In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the... -
Kitch: A fictional biography of a calypso icon by Anthony Joseph 9781845234195
RRP: £10.99£7.64The poet and musician Anthony Joseph met and spoke to Lord Kitchener just once, in 1984, when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain's Queen's Park Savannah, one Carnival Monday afternoon. It was a pivotal... -
The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn
RRP: £19.00£10.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134114Author Raynor WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *... -
A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses by Larry Haun
RRP: £19.99£12.95Part memoir, part cultural history, this is a book about the history of homebuilding in America over the past 100 years, told through twelve unique but modest houses that the author knows intimately. We follow the author from the sod house in Nebraska... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780300204711
RRP: £8.99£8.17A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in... -
Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies 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 -
Another Life Is Possible: Insights from 100 Years of Life Together by Clare Stober
RRP: £28.99£20.84A stunning photo essay paired with 100 stories of members gives a rare glimpse into the Bruderhof, a Christian community that has stood the test of time. Yes, it is possible to create a society where there are no rich or poor, where children and elderly... -
The Wild Silence: A Memoir by Raynor Winn 9780143136422
RRP: £20.00£14.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136422Author Raynor WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *... -
Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence by Glenn Adamson
RRP: £69.95£52.75The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce's incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer's own words In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half... -
Ready For Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokey Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Stokely Carmichael, (Kwame Ture)
RRP: £22.99£15.68From the prison farms and lynch mobs of Mississippi to the political intrigue of the African liberation wars, Stokely Carmichael's remarkable life story covers the full range of the black liberation struggle in our time. Carmichael recounts his... -
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall 9780679740704
RRP: £11.99£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740704Author Nathan McCallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g -
Narrative of the Life of Frede by Douglass Frederick 9780451529947
RRP: £3.99£3.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529947Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint by Dr. Roy Flechner 9780691184647
£29.38A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by... -
Never Answer To A Whistle by Michael Howard 9781916205307
RRP: £10.00£3.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916205307Author Michael HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Griffin Publishing UKPublisher Griffin Publishing UKWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Collected Autobio/Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
£27.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643258Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 1184Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
I, Rigoberta Menchu by Rigoberta Menchu
RRP: £20.99£15.67Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother,... -
I, Eric Ngalle: One Man's Journey Crossing Continents from Africa to Europe by Eric Ngalle 9781912109104
RRP: £9.99£7.11Eric Ngalle thought he was leaving Cameroon for a better life... Instead of arriving in Belgium to study for a degree in economics he ended up in one of the last countries he would have chosen to visit - Russia. Having seen his passport stolen, Eric... -
My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You by Aleksandar Hemon
RRP: £14.99£10.95Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada - of the... -
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero by Mordechai Bar-On
RRP: £19.99£17.76From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel's first decades of statehood Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was one of Israel's most charismatic-and... -
Man, Myth and Museum: Iorwerth C. Peate and the Making of the Welsh Folk Museum by Eurwyn Wiliam 9781837720392
RRP: £25.00£18.81The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain. It was (according to himself) created by one man: Iorwerth C. Peate, poet, author, and scholar. This is the first book-length critical study of Peate as scholar and... -
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
£11.18Written ten years after his legal emancipation, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM catapulted Frederick Douglass into the international spotlight as a leading spokesperson for American blacks, both freed and in slavery. This, Douglass's second autobiography, was... -
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge 9781324094548
RRP: £16.99£14.58Sarah and Angelina Grimke-the Grimke sisters-are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most... -
Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £9.99£6.70Sardar travels to Asian communities throughout the UK to tell the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in 1614, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006. He interweaves throughout an illuminating account of his... -
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass 9780300190595
£13.63"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan... -
Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of An Accidental Family by Lynn Knight
RRP: £9.99£6.70150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire - was home to the Nash family and their corner shop, serving a small mining community with everything from Brasso to Dolly Blue, from cheap dress... -
Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter by James S Hirsch 9780618087280
£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618087280Author James S HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 494g -
I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson
RRP: £16.99£11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060555979Author Jackie RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm...