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Forgotten Dreams by Katie Flynn 9780099503149
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00Lottie Lacey and her mother, Louella, share a house in Victoria Court with Mr Magic and his son Baz. Lottie is a child star, dancing and singing at the Gaiety Theatre to an enraptured audience,... -
Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative by Wendy B. Faris 9780826514424
Booksplease Price: $71.14This study investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction. It defines its characteristics and narrative techniques and proposes a new theory to explain... -
The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 9781529158878
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23'[A] powerful book' Marilynne Robinson'A book to be read and re-read' Jesmyn Ward'Poetic and fierce' Yiyun LiFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue... -
Homing Instinct by Diana Appleyard 9780552998215 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $4.90It's time to start thinking the unthinkable...Carrie Adams, successful television producer, mother and wife, is about to return to work. Baby Tom has fallen in love with the new nanny; six-year-old... -
Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic by Madhu Dubey
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.44""A clear and uncluttered writer, Dubey helps us understand these ideological and literary complexities."" -- Virginia Quarterly Review.."". an important contribution to the study of African-American... -
American Ghosts & Old World Wonders by Angela Carter 9780099133711
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Shortly before her death Angela Carter was preparing this volume of short stories, one which does full justice to the glory of her imagination and the range of her talent. It is divided into distinct... -
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966-2006 by Edward Said
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.64A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and... -
The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions): 'I love this novel' Patricia Lockwood by Jean Stafford 9780571368174
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Introduced by Hilton Als, in 'one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature' (New York Times) two siblings come of age in a mountainous wilderness ...'One of the strangest and... -
Black Girl Rising by Brynne Barnes 9781452164878
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $15.30You are a thousand curls unfurling in your hair. You are a thousand fists standing proudly in air. You are the song of swallows, lifting sun as they sing - breaking light with their beaks, ... -
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang 9781529111965
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $12.88Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets.One evening, Mother... -
Betty: The International Bestseller by Tiffany McDaniel 9781474617543
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $13.17'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating'Observer, Books of the Year'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it'Daisy Johnson, author... -
An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019 by Tayari Jones 9781786075192 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.18* Tayari Jones's brand new novel, KIN, is available to pre-order now! Out March 2026 * One of the New York Times's '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' 'A moving portrayal of the effects... -
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship by Dana A. Williams 9780063011984
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.20NPR SPRING PICKAn insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who... -
Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire by Brian Kwoba
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $16.23When students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following similar calls by students in Cape Town, the significance of these protests was felt across continents... -
Survivor by Octavia E. Butler 9781035444229
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.08From the bestselling and award-winning novelist, Octavia E. Butler. Completing the Patternist series, a new edition of her cult classic novel, now in print for the first time in fifty years.When... -
A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection by Jenni Murray 9781786076281 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $3.74From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress... -
Maud Martha (Faber Editions): 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo by Gwendolyn Brooks
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S 'A GOOD READ'Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine... -
Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler 9781035445486
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.67A stunning new edition of Book Two of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the... -
A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection Jenni Murray 9781786076281
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.00From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress... -
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
Booksplease Price: $20.88In a stunning first novel, renowned hip-hop artist, writer and activist Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life with a powerful and utterly unforgettable tale. Ghetto-born, Winter is... -
Small Great Things: 'To Kill a Mockingbird for the 21st Century' by Jodi Picoult 9781444788013 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $5.55'To Kill a Mockingbird for the 21st Century' Real Reader ReviewWhen a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival... -
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris
Booksplease Price: $24.99In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya... -
Small Great Things: The bestselling novel you won't want to miss by Jodi Picoult 9781444788006 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $4.69'The best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility.''To Kill a Mockingbird for the... -
The Color Purple by Alice Walker 9781474612944
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.46THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female. I love that The Color Purple doesn't... -
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female. I love that The Color Purple doesn't... -
The Book of Mean People (20th Anniversary Edition) by Slade Morrison
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.33A new edition for a new world of one of literary legend Toni Morrison's first picture books with her son, Slade Morrison. With an afterword by the inimitable Jewell Parker Rhodes."This is a book... -
Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions) by Rachel Ingalls
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.84The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...'Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.' Margaret Atwood'Perfect.' Max Porter'Still outpaces,... -
Wench: The word-of-mouth hit that became a New York Times bestseller Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9781399620321
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24THE WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT THAT BECAME A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'SHATTERING' SIGRID NUNEZ'BEAUTIFUL' USA TODAY'UNFORGETTABLE' TAYARI JONESIn 1850s Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa... -
Balm: From the New York Times bestselling author of Take My Hand Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9781399620352
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24HOPE CAN SET YOU FREE . . .'GORGEOUS' WASHINGTON POST'MOVING' USA TODAY'RIVETING' VALERIE MARTINThe Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new life... -
Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning by Richard T. Hughes 9780252083754
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.76Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the... -
I'm Going to Be a Princess by Stephanie Taylor 9781839944710
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59A warm and witty celebration of the lives of amazing Black women.What will Maya be when she grows up? A rocket scientist like Annie Easley? An Olympic athlete like Alice Coachman? A brain surgeon... -
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: The Million-Copy Bestseller James McBride 9781399620420
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024 THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERBARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKAMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS'A generous,... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.03"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary... -
The Color Purple: The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $25.12ONE 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... -
Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59An inspiring collection of quotations from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK... -
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88"Reminiscent of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." -The New York Times "One of the best books I have ever read...will live in the hearts of readers for the rest of their lives." -Colby Sharp, founder... -
Fall by Will Carver 9781913193928
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88Estranged brothers are reunited over plans to develop the tower block where they grew up, but the desolate estate becomes a stage for reliving the events of one life-changing summer, forty years... -
Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.84Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis,...