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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young... -
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's... -
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him... -
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have... -
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From small beginnings its demonstrations spread across the world to cities like... -
Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical... -
Without Prejudice: Black Britain: Writing Back by Nicola Williams
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Impressive and unique. As relevant today as it was over two decades go' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionA gripping, propulsive courtroom thriller following barrister Lee Mitchell as she... -
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son by James Baldwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to... -
The Fat Lady Sings: Black Britain: Writing Back by Jacqueline Roy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A groundbreaking novel exploring the intersection between race, class and mental health in the UK'A strong and humane work of fiction' Jackie Kay'That is the glory of being a mental patient. Nothing... -
The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable... -
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles... -
On Beauty by Zadie Smith 9780241989166
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story... -
Secret Son by Laila Lalami 9780141042732
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old... -
The Death of King Arthur by 9780140442557
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round... -
Deacon King Kong: The New York Times and Oprah's Book Club Pick by James McBride
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR, NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life,... -
Capital: Volume III by Karl Marx
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the theories and concepts of the two... -
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the... -
The Caliph's House by Tahir Shah
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul...Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash,... -
The Book of Negroes: Commonwealth Prize Winner by Lawrence Hill
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The TimesWINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTIONBased on a true... -
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A staggeringly beautiful meditation on love, legacy and the emotional necessities that make life worth living.' Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's WifeBOSTON, 1980Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and... -
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson 9781529115055
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'Riveting' Guardian'Electrifying' Colson WhiteheadWhen the world collapses, where will you run? After rolling blackouts and epic storms engulf America, the neighbourhood of First Street,... -
Next of Kin by John Boyne 9780552777407
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.811936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the... -
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 9780241980446
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.82A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate... -
Brazil by John Updike 9780141188942
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a... -
A House For Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul 9781857152135
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of... -
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz 9781857152487
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in... -
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The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith 9780140276343 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard'A glorious concoction by our most... -
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NW by Zadie Smith 9780141036595 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.52From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life'A triumph. Every sentence sings'... -
Memorial Bryan Washington 9781838950101
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who... -
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZESUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly... -
Crippen: A Novel of Murder by John Boyne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le... -
Going To Meet The Man: The Rockpile; The Outing; The Man Child; Previous Condition; Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' GuardianHow our earliest experiences can shape our destiny is the theme that runs like a thread of revelation through these... -
Lot by Bryan Washington
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31* Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 ** One of Barack Obama's "Favourite Books of the Year" ** A New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 *'A superb book' Max Porter, author of... -
A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally... -
The Dancing Face: Black Britain: Writing Back by Mike Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A sensational, original thriller that examines the powerful link between identity, sacrifice and possession, and questions our compulsive need to chase after ambitions that leave devastation in their... -
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection.'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer... -
Passengers: True Stories of the Underground Railroad by William Still
Booksplease Price: £13.16Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.A secret network... -
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo 9780141997421
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative... -
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Billy by Albert French 9780749397715 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.97SOON TO BE FEATURED ON THE GRAHAM NORTON BOOK CLUB PODCAST ON AUDIBLEDiscover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.The tale of... -
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When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China...