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Pink Floyd All The Songs by Jean-Michel Guesdon
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.95The newest addition to the best-selling All the Songs series details the unique recording history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's most commercially successful and influential rock bands.Since 1965,... -
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson 9780807848296
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.61In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete... -
Communists in Harlem during the Depression by Mark Naison 9780252072710
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.84Winner of the Ralph Bunche Award, American Political Science Association No socialist organization has ever had a more profound effect on black life than the Communist Party did in Harlem during the... -
The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers by Brian Dolinar 9780252080937
Booksplease Price: £21.96A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President... -
The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams 9781804270967
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. Now terminally ill, he has nothing left to lose. An expat... -
Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors by Sue Wilkes 9781848847446
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78If you want to find out about Lancashire's history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal book for you. As... -
Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection by Laura Pegram 9798893310252
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal's mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. "It gave me great... -
Langston Hughes and the Blues by Steven C. Tracy 9780252088049
Booksplease Price: £23.21The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how Hughes mined Black... -
Pink Floyd Shine On: The Definitive Oral History Mark Blake 9781917923057
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68The definitive oral history of Pink Floyd as told by friends, associates, family members and the band themselves through exclusive, never before published interviews.Bestselling music author Mark... -
Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers by Joel Whitney 9781944869526
Booksplease Price: £14.73When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold,... -
Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just by Claude Atcho 9781587435294
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts) Midwest Book Review 2023 Gold Book Award Winner (Nonfiction - Religion/Philosophy) Learning from Black voices means listening to... -
Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake
Booksplease Price: £14.45Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history... -
The Flaming Cow: The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother by Ron Geesin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99By the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd were experiencing a creative voltage drop, so they turned to composer Ron Geesin for help in writing their next album.The Flaming Cow... -
Turning Angel by Greg Iles
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982120658Author Greg IlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint -
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola... -
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life' Marlon James Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the... -
Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English... -
Recitatif Toni Morrison 9781784744786
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine EvaristoTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls'... -
Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd Mike Cormack 9781803995359
Booksplease Price: £30.90Pink Floyd are one of the most iconic and influential rock bands in the world: their sonic ambition, lyrical dexterity and structural ability are unparalleled in rock music. Since their formation in... -
Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd Mike Cormack 9781837051397
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50'Exhaustively annotated and often extremely insightful.' - Record Collector'A staggering amount of description and historical context behind the songs.' - Classic RockPink Floyd are one of the most... -
Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett 9781469654423
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In... -
On Black Men by David Marriott 9780231122276
Booksplease Price: £31.57Mutilated, dying, or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be. This book explores... -
What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) by Naomi Kanakia 9780691251929
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.36A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic, and too white-and explains what we gain by reading themWhen she was in her early... -
Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years by Martin Popoff
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £26.43Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever on the 50th anniversary of its release with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic... -
The Essential Harlem Detectives by Chester himes 9781841594170
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories and essays, as well as the classic crime... -
American Violence: Survival, Healing, and the Failure of American Policy by Richard G. Wright 9781793600578
Booksplease Price: £103.41Richard Wright analyzes the current state of violence in America, the criminal justice system's response, and the experiences of survivors in the aftermath of a violent crime. Despite decades of... -
Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and... -
By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism by Anthony B. Pinn 9780814766729
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.99The Black church is often praised for its contribution to Black culture and politics. More recently Islam has been recognized as an important force in African American liberation. Anthony Pinn's new... -
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses: Four Works by Zakes Mda 9781868142224
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and child share a last, loving waltz; a cynical, disabled... -
Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel by Lawrence R. Rodgers 9780252066054
Booksplease Price: £20.12The Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from their southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining event of post-emancipation... -
Into the Light: The Photography of Jerome Brunet by Jerome Brunet 9781683836896
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £30.46Brunet got his start in the music world early, playing cello at four years old and continuing on to the guitar in his teens. His early passion for music translated easily to another artistic... -
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Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell 9780822315360 [USED COPY]
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £13.53Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through... -
Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition, The: How To Write, Teach, And Appreciate Haiku by Penny Harter
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.26The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku... -
Pink Floyd: Song by Song by Andrew Wild 9781781555996
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Pink Floyd Song by Song takes a fresh look at the songs which led to Pink Floyd becoming the third best-selling band of all time. From 'Arnold Layne' to 'Louder Than Words', Pink Floyd wrote about... -
Flying Home And Other Stories by John Callahan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a... -
At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing by Wendy W. Walters
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced "a sort of pure homesickness" while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis,... -
Juneteenth Ralph Ellison 9780241215005
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity. 'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything'... -
Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time:... -
Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with his...