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Radio Plays: The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somewhere in England by Caryl Phillips
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133489
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject... -
Radio Plays: The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somewhere in England by Caryl Phillips 9781350300064
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £79.74Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he has also written radio plays, nine of which were... -
Dat's Love by Leonora Brito 9780241999516
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A brilliant collection of short stories from Leonora Brito exploring race, identity, and love'Magical, enigmatic, distinctive, accomplished and haunting . . . Brito was ahead of her time' BERNARDINE... -
Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams 9780241999530
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge,... -
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, 2021 Rene Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of... -
Bloomsbury 35 Various Authors 9781526635044
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In 1984, a time when the publishing landscape was becoming increasingly corporate, Nigel Newton decided to start a new independent literary publishing company. The following year, over early mornings... -
Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature David Attwell 9781032241180
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established... -
Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience by Elvira Pulitano
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary... -
The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes 9780691141664
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the... -
Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel by Alan McCluskey 9781137503374
Booksplease Price: £46.74In this work, Alan McCluskey explores materialism, in its many conceptual forms, in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. The author applies a 'cosmopolitan materialist' lens to the novels of Caryl... -
Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon by Cheryl Finley
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving... -
Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction by Tuire Valkeakari 9780813062471
Booksplease Price: £76.84In Precarious Passages, Tuire Valkeakari analyzes the writing of Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Hill, and other contemporary novelists of African descent. She shows how their novels connect... -
To Sir With Love by E. R. Braithwaite
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A milestone in the campaign for racial equality' GuardianIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in... -
Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures Annalisa Oboe 9780415591928
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in... -
Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland by Carmen Zamorano Llena 9783030410520
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book examines how the transcultural and transnational migration of people, texts, and ideas has transformed the paradigm of national literature, with Britain and Ireland as case studies. The... -
Turner by David Dabydeen 9781900715683
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94David Dabydeen's Turner is a long narrative poem written in response to JMW Turner's celebrated painting 'Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying'. Dabydeen's poem focuses on what is hidden in... -
Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen 9781032241340
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all... -
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary by Stephen Clingman 9780199278497
Booksplease Price: £104.97In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of... -
Monsieur Ka Vesna Goldsworthy 9781784704520
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A beautiful haunting novel... looking at a familiar London through a frosty, snowy lens. Wonderful' Caryl PhillipsThe London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution... -
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 9780141186351
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s... -
Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight by Dr. Juliana Lopoukhine 9781501361296
Booksplease Price: £96.35This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys’s entire... -
Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside by Joanna Johnson 9783030041335
Booksplease Price: £55.66How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows... -
Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight by Dr. Juliana Lopoukhine 9781501371653
Booksplease Price: £33.84This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire... -
Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law by David Farrier 9781846314803
Booksplease Price: £119.73Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary... -
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story Michael Pearce 9781138917866
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.Michael Pearce offers an... -
Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing by Justin D. Edwards 9781846318214
Booksplease Price: £119.73Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book... -
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary by Stephen Clingman 9780199653812
Booksplease Price: £56.67In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of... -
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature by Yogita Goyal 9780521763592
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major... -
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature by Yogita Goyal 9781107632912
Booksplease Price: £24.15Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major... -
Paradise Toni Morrison 9781784877255
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the... -
Black Travel Writing: Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors by Isabel Kalous 9783837659535
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £32.76What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by... -
Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption by John McLeod 9781350030350
Booksplease Price: £40.79Adoptions that cross the lines of culture, race and nation are a major consequence of conflicts around the globe, yet their histories and representations have rarely been considered. Life Lines:... -
Bob Stevenson by Richard Wiley 9781942658160
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.85"A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale... -
Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes by Stephen Howe 9781859842287
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.45In this provocative study, Stephen Howe traces the sources and ancestries of the Afrocentric movement, and closely analyses the writings of its leading proponents. Hard-hitting yet subtle and... -
Creative Freedom: F Words by The F-Words Group
Booksplease Price: £13.09Creative Freedom: The FWords anthology, features new work by eight of Yorkshire's most talented literary and visual artists. The writers and artists were asked to respond to the Parliamentary Act of... -
New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives by Anthea Morrison 9789766407353
Booksplease Price: £33.14This interdisciplinary study focuses on recent migrant literature by five outstanding authors from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean: Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz,... -
Literature and Institutions of Welfare Dr Jess Cotton 9781843847311
Booksplease Price: £30.43Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present. The welfare state in Britain established a... -
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Emily Ruth Rutter 9781644532454
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian... -
Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction by Jopi Nyman 9789042026902
Booksplease Price: £83.88This innovative volume discusses the significance of home and global mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction written in English. Through analyses of central diasporic and migrant writers in the...