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Mapping Black Women's Geographies Kimberly Blockett 9781032806099
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Spanning three centuries, this book demonstrates a variety of archival practices to tell more expansive stories about Black women. It examines the life writing, records, and ephemera of Black women... -
Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Toibin, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and... -
Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives by Jean W. Cash 9781496833334
Booksplease Price: £99.43Contributions by Destiny O. Birdsong, Jean W. Cash, Kevin Catalano, Amanda Dean Freeman, David Gates, Richard Gaughran, Rebecca Godwin, Joan Wylie Hall, Dixon Hearne, Phillip Howerton, Emily D... -
Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture by Stefanie K. Dunning 9781496832931
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyonce's Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the... -
The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature Alexander Menrisky 9781041023883
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse writers in the United States have represented the nonhuman world and human... -
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing Jina B. Kim 9781478028482
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US... -
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing Jina B. Kim 9781478031710
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £26.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint -
The Best American Essays 2021 by Robert Atwan 9780358381754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381754Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence by Annette Trefzer 9781496851086
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand,... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 by Sid Holt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In "The Plague Year,"... -
Apocalyptic Territories: Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction by Anna Hellen 9781032238524
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events... -
Troubled Waters by Mary Annaïse Heglar 9781400248117
Booksplease Price: £12.45In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to be family, Black women, and alive in a world on fire.The world is burning—and... -
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... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496802330
Booksplease Price: £99.43A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature. Contributions by Barbara Bennett, Thomas AErvold Bjerre, Erik Bledsoe, Linda Byrd Cook, Thomas E. Dasher, Robert... -
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair 9780008491284
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘I adored this book … Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK There was more... -
The Wicked Cometh: The addictive historical mystery Laura Carlin 9781473661394
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort . . .' 'Beguiling' StylistThe year is 1831. Down murky alleyways, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place... -
Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature Jill Goad 9781666969986
Booksplease Price: £80.73Through the lens of a feminist psychoanalytic framework, Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature re-evaluates the mother-child dynamic as one far more complicated than what is... -
On Fiction and Being a Good Animal David P. Rando 9781399538060
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues that we should abandon the persistent humanist idea... -
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Heidi Pitlor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.89A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of... -
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson 9780349701394
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. Terrific' The Times 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn WardMitchell S. Jackson grew up... -
Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities by Tanya Ann Kennedy 9781438495460
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era... -
Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities by Tanya Ann Kennedy 9781438495453
Booksplease Price: £26.07Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era... -
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. Terrific' The Times 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn WardMitchell S. Jackson grew up... -
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton 9780008532888
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023 'A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS '[A]... -
How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory Jennifer C. Nash 9781478030461
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field's central object and preoccupation: loss. She... -
Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care by Amelia DeFalco 9780192886125
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £67.12Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496810526
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories... -
Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal with 80 Prompts from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Style Nina Schuyler 9798897400027
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Sentences are alive. Done well, they can help us see the world anew.To create such sentences you need fresh, varied rhythms and imagery. In this creative writing journal, Nina Schuyler, award-winning... -
Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence by Annette Trefzer 9781496851093
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand,... -
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair 9780008491321
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO ... -
Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States since 9/11 Sasha-Mae Eccleston 9780300263411
Booksplease Price: £30.43An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how these classics shape our understanding of the politics of time in America Ancient Greek and Roman... -
Adaptation in Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present by Dr. Dana E. Lawrence 9781501371950
Booksplease Price: £33.49Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that... -
The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee 9780063275904
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor."Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin... -
The Color Purple: The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63ONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'A story about Black women living in the intersections of... -
Heavy by Kiese Laymon 9781526605764
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.78_______________ 'So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate ... A gift' - Jesmyn Ward 'Wow. Just wow' - Roxane Gay 'Unflinchingly honest' - Reni... -
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and... -
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon
Booksplease Price: £13.70The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together...