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One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah 9780861542321
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41*Winner of the Diverse Book Award 2023* 'I loved this book so much! Intense and beautiful and heartbreaking.' Buki Papillon, author of An Ordinary Wonder It's hard to plan your future... -
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12*Winner of the Diverse Book Award 2023* 'I loved this book so much! Intense and beautiful and heartbreaking.' Buki Papillon, author of An Ordinary Wonder It's hard to plan your future... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary... -
TOP DOLL: ‘If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll’ Malika Booker Karen McCarthy Woolf 9780349703473
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.06'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.'... -
TOP DOLL: ‘If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll’ Malika Booker by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9780349703459
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.28'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.'... -
New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel Gabriele Lazzari 9781350385672
Booksplease Price: £90.57A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing... -
Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions by Cheryl Sterling 9781032011325
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the... -
Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Crossing will devour you; this is some fierce, dazzling, and heartbreaking shit' NoViolet Bulawayo Bujar's world is collapsing. His father is dying and his homeland, Albania, bristles with hunger... -
New Global Realism: Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel Gabriele Lazzari 9781350385719
Booksplease Price: £30.54Shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic... -
Migration and Return in Modern African Literature: Black Bodies in White Spaces Professor Ernest Ernest Cole 9781648251122
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Using close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of African migration: departure, disillusionment and the impulse to return. The... -
Contested Criminalities in Zimbabwean Fiction by Tendai Mangena 9780367732493
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories... -
Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures by Peter Moopi 9781032578828
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in... -
Crossing by Pajtim Statovci 9781782275107
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51"Crossing will devour you; this is some fierce, dazzling, and heartbreaking s**t" NoViolet Bulawayo "A novel that dazzles and mesmerizes, and the reader, upon finishing, may have the... -
The Whispering Jacarandas Zahirra Dayal 9781915789624
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Whispering Jacarandas is a haunting debut that unfolds in the charged aftermath of Zimbabwe's independence. In the leafy suburb of Belvedere, sisters Zaynah and Amira grow up within the shelter... -
Little Rot: 'A masterwork of the form . . . mesmerising.' New York Times Akwaeke Emezi 9780571382828
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY'Fun, sexy, dangerous.' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'A must-read.' GLAMOUR'Addictive.' iNEWS'Poetic, scorchingly... -
Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel Elisha Jane Cohn 9781503642379
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in... -
Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel Elisha Jane Cohn 9781503641761
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in... -
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs 9781509883622
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love.' - Zadie SmithTenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret - these are the tensions at the heart of... -
Afropolitan Literature as World Literature by Prof James Hodapp 9781501372452
Booksplease Price: £37.35African literature has never been more visible than it is today. Whereas Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o defined a golden generation of African writers in the 20th century, a new... -
Afropolitan Literature as World Literature by Prof James Hodapp 9781501342585
Booksplease Price: £122.05African literature has never been more visible than it is today. Whereas Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o defined a golden generation of African writers in the 20th century, a new... -
Love Interrupted by Reneilwe Malatji 9781946395030
Booksplease Price: £13.35"[E]ach story inventively unfurls a different desire, longing, or frustration" - Jacinda Townsend, author Saint Monkey In her debut collection of short fiction, Reneilwe Malatji invites us into... -
Digging Stars: A Novel Novuyo Rosa Tshuma 9781324035176
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £18.33With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in... -
The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781946395412
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"This transcendent and powerful testament to the indomitable human spirit is not to be missed." -Publishers Weekly, starred reviewFrom 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria NdlovuBook 1... -
Mugabe's Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.34Zimbabwe's party-internal 'coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe's death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power... -
Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35'A must read...!!!' will.i.am'Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace' David OlusogaWITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTOConversations with some of the most... -
The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition by José Donoso 9780811232227
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of the crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are... -
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023 by Stephen Buoro 9781526638014
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **'A voice unlike any other' OBSERVER'I fell in love immediately' MAX... -
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION ** 'A voice unlike any other' OBSERVER 'I fell in love... -
Owlish by Dorothy Tse
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.87In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in... -
We Kiss Them With Rain by Futhi Ntshingila 9781946395047
Booksplease Price: £11.18Selected as a 2019 Outstanding International Book by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) Ntshingila's lyrically wrought North American debut is a slim yet satisfying... -
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A DOROTHY KOOMSON BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Such a beautiful read, like chatting to a friend over a cuppa. This is the intimate, insightful read that I didn't know I needed. Just... -
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love.' Zadie Smith'Impressive' Observer'A summer must-read' StylistOne of Oprah Magazine's 15 Favourite Books of 2018.'There is a... -
Ndima Ndima by Tsitsi Mapepa 9781946395962
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters-and her community-through times of drought and violence in...