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Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya 9781913109110
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and... -
THE COFFER DAMS by KAMALA MARKANDAYA
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers, arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife, Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are faced... -
Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside by Max Lobe 9781913109905
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55The narrator, Mwana, is a young man from Bantuland, living in Geneva. A graduate from a Swiss university, we first encounter Mwana waiting for a bus in the hills of Lugano gazing at a poster calling... -
DUPPY CONQUEROR by Ferdinand Dennis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Marshall Sarjeant is born at the beginning of the 20th century in Paradise, Jamaica. As a young man, he is entrusted with a mythical quest to overcome a curse that has been put on his family. He must... -
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: The Ebola Tales by Veronique Tadjo 9781913109790
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an... -
ARTEMISIA by Anna Banti 9781913109004
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.56First published in 1953, Artemisia is a classic of 20th century Italian literature. From its first publication in 1953, Artemisia, a novel about Artemisia Gentileschi, an iconic 17th century painter,... -
Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and other stories by JOHN AGARD 9781913109875
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68In the title story, Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and his sidekick Rudeyard Fly are sent for by the Criminal Investigation Department of Middleham-by-Sea - a little town known for tea shops, pet shops,... -
The LAST ONE by Fatima Dass 9781913109851
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.41The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim... -
A LONG WAY FROM DOUALA by Max Lobe 9781913109011
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends... -
Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements Trevor Ngwane 9780745342009
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $24.50Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book... -
The Colour Line by Igiaba Scego 9781913109202
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.83It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't... -
Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements by Trevor Ngwane 9780745341996
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $89.71'One of the most exciting and provocative books that I've read in a long time' - Mike Davis, author of Planet of the Slums Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything... -
EXHUMATION: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra by LEENA DHINGRA 9781913109820
Booksplease Price: $18.37In Exhumation, Madan Lal's great niece, the actor and writer Leena Dhingra, unravels and reveals his remarkable story. Born in Amritsar, the sixth of seven sons of an eminent surgeon, Madan Lal... -
The Nowhere Man by Kamala Markandaya
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in a south London suburb for thirty years. After the death of his son, and later his wife, this lonely man is befriended by an Englishwoman in her... -
Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism Mercedes Núñez Targa 9780745349084
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.63'Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of...