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Walk Me to the Distance: A Novel by Percival Everett 9798217008483
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217008483Author Percival EverettFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Perspectives on Percival Everett by Keith B. Mitchell 9781628460599
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Percival Everett (b. 1956) writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. Although to date... -
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett 9781555975272
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.87Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous... -
James: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by Percival Everett 9781035031269
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle'A brilliant retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the enslaved Jim' - The ObserverJames... -
James (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Novel by Percival Everett 9780593686867
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Intermezzo: The new novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Normal People Sally Rooney 9780571365487
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW... -
Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett by Anthony Stewart 9780807172643
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.30In Approximate Gestures, Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their... -
One Sun Only Camille Bordas 9781805220145
Booksplease Price: £10.35'Camille Bordas is an invaluable new voice' George Saunders A young woman takes stock following a burglary. A teenager becomes obsessed with the obituaries in a weekly magazine. Grandchildren... -
Passing into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing Sinead Moynihan 9780719082290
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims... -
Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing by 9781526156013
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims... -
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel [LP 16 Pt Edition] by Percival Everett 9781038774149
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038774149Author Percival EverettFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher... -
Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett by Lesley Larkin 9780253017871
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature... -
Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett by Lesley Larkin 9780253017581
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature... -
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843: Annotated from the Library of John C. Calhoun by Percival Everett 9781597096287
Booksplease Price: £14.53Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical... -
The Material Camille Bordas 9781805220084
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Utterly charming ... Bordas is an invaluable new voice' George Saunders 'A disquisition into the nature of comedy and creativity. Like the best comedians ... Bordas is alert to the deeper joke'... -
James: The Heartbreaking and Ferociously Funny Novel from the Genius Behind American Fiction and the Booker-Shortlisted The Trees by Percival Everett 9781035031238
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.05Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.'Truly extraordinary books are... -
We the Animals Justin Torres 9781803512440
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother... -
Absence Issa Quincy 9781803512266
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they... -
Animal Nightlife Koushik Banerjea 9781919184722
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Vikram, Ravi and Sean, childhood friends from south London, seem to be the only ones who have noticed that they have wings. As adults and 'multiples' - their hybrid human/animal forms - they are ... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews Adam Biles 9781837260690
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone... -
Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo 9780802166494
Booksplease Price: £13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802166494Author Xiaolu GuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 9780486852973
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.92Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that... -
Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh by Candice M. Jenkins 9781517905804
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.15Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to state... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles 9781805300038
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone... -
The American Daughters Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780349704913
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the pair spend their days dreaming of a loving... -
Not a Big Deal: Narrating to Unsettle by Paul Ardoin
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.90Not a Big Deal asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or rebutted with alternative facts. When readers already recognize... -
Sky Full of Elephants Cebo Campbell 9781668034927
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668034927Author Cebo CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard 9780241733691
Booksplease Price: £13.49'Gorgeous and heartwrenching' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Worlds and Open Water'What an electrifying and important debut. Every word is knife sharp, every emotion... -
Hangman by Maya Binyam 9781911590774
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'A gripping tale of homecoming and loss... ruthlessly honest and startlingly beautiful... profound and unforgettable' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King 'Daring, intellectually rich, and... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford 9780252041006
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine... -
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures... -
Sky Full of Elephants Cebo Campbell 9781668034934
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668034934Author Cebo CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko 9781836431060
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Lucashenko is a national treasure: there are no two ways around it.' Vogue Australia * From the winner of eight major literary awards, including Australia's Miles Franklin Award * Two... -
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan 9780252043390
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures... -
Rainforest by Michelle Paver 9781398723207
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'Phenomenal. All of the stars... Easily my top read of the year so far' Reader Review, 'Profoundly wonderful storytelling' Reader Review, 'Incredible! Really was an experience... -
The Weight by Jeff Boyd 9781668007266
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.21A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism,... -
Rainforest by Michelle Paver 9781398723214
Booksplease Price: £13.55'Phenomenal. All of the stars... Easily my top read of the year so far' Reader Review, 'Profoundly wonderful storytelling' Reader Review, 'Incredible! Really was an experience... -
Colored Television Danzy Senna 9780349705026
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71'As fearless as she is funny, Danzy Senna is one of this country's most thrilling writers' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind'Hilarious' Raven Leilani, author of LusterJane has high hopes... -
Amity: from the Booker-longlisted author of The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris 9781035404698
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker-longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER'Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The...