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Post-colonial Con-texts: Writing Back to the Canon by John Thieme 9780826454669
Booksplease Price: £33.49In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as... -
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 9780241718599
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl... -
Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination by Sarah Phillips Casteel
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.50In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled... -
Dragonfish: A Novel by Vu Tran 9780393352870
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.87Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the mysterious Vietnamese wife who left him. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent smuggler who blackmails Robert into... -
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.66'Palmer spins a cracking tale that, despite its disconcerting subject, is piquantly cheerful and compassionate . . . With empathy and imagination, Palmer explores the master/apprentice relationship,... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times,... -
Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics by Peter J. Kalliney 9780190455927
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson 9781035006335
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Key to understanding Black British history' - The Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithOne of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist... -
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness by Wole Soyinka 9780195134285
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.24When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate... -
Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History by Gretchen Gerzina 9781399804905
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'The classic book on Black people in Georgian London' DAVID OLUSOGA'Deeply researched, lucidly written and utterly fascinating . . . If you ever thought Black British history started with Windrush,... -
Beyond a Boundary by C. L. R. James 9780822355632
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.18This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books... -
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era by David W. Blight
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.85"The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows perhaps better than anyone, and in this superb book he masterfully unites two distant but inextricably bound events." Ken... -
The Tell-Tale Heart Jill Dawson 9781444731088
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015One heart, two lives...When a teenager dies in an accident in rural Cambridgeshire, it affords Patrick, a fifty-year-old professor, drinker and womaniser, the... -
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V Carby
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh... -
Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize by Andrea Levy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the... -
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.34Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was...