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The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black Michael E. Sawyer 9781439925560
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50In The Door of No Return, Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy that explores how Black people bring the future into being-and what existence in that future... -
The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black Michael E. Sawyer 9781439925577
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66In The Door of No Return, Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy that explores how Black people bring the future into being-and what existence in that future... -
The Immortal Sisterhood: 12 Guiding Stars to Grow, Heal and Navigate Life Gemma Cairney 9781837267101
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'Gemma's mind is a thing of wonder. Reading her love for these crucial legacies is like falling under a spell'AFUA HIRSCH'Will warm your heart and activate your moral compass. An absolute delight and... -
Postcolonial Derrida Dr Sean Meighoo 9781399554817
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19Jacques Derrida remains one of the most renowned intellectuals in the areas of philosophy, literary studies, and cultural criticism today. Yet the close relationship between Derrida's philosophical... -
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, from the author of The Language of Kindness Christie Watson 9781849163750
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD. 'Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.'Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous... -
Liberty: Vintage Minis by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the... -
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Tiny Sunbirds Far Away: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, from the author of The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson 9781849163750 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD. 'Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.'Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous... -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.89Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about... -
Brother by David Chariandy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life' Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker Prize NOW A FILM STARRING LAMAR JOHNSON AND... -
This Part is Silent SJ Kim 9781916751262
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences... -
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature: Latching On Wendy Whelan-Stewart 9781032722245
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic... -
The Fragmented Female Body and Identity: The Postmodern, Feminist, and Multiethnic Writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Perez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker by Pamela B. June 9781433110504
RRP: £68.40Booksplease Price: £60.90The Fragmented Female Body and Identity explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women's novels, namely Toni Morrison's Beloved, Theresa... -
Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction by Keith Eldon Byerman 9780807856475
Booksplease Price: £37.87This work describes twentieth-century survivor narratives and African American identity. With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles... -
Tiny Feet: A Treasury for Parents: An Anthology by Notting Hill Editions Editors
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.88'It was the most liberating thing that ever happened to me, having children. The children's demands on me were things that nobody else ever asked me to do.' -Toni Morrison Children are a... -
No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'A masterpiece of hurt' New York TimesWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONIQUE ROFFEYIn the Caribbean, at the beginning of the last century, a poor rice-growing family struggle to exist. Four siblings pass... -
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama 9781847670830
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Before he was president, he was senator. Written two years prior to the election that would change the face of the United States, The Audacity of Hope discusses the importance of empathy in politics,... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781529111996
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of... -
Leaders & Dreamers: A Collection of Prints by Vashti Harrison 9780316702652
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316702652Author Vashti HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint -
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 9780812253412
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts-and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading-are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and... -
Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise by Christel N. Temple 9781498545105
Booksplease Price: £39.39Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces:... -
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts-and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading-are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and... -
Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise by Christel N. Temple 9781498545082
Booksplease Price: £90.57Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces:... -
In Defence of Barbarism: Non-Whites Against the Empire Louisa Yousfi 9781804294420
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Is social integration all it's cracked up to be? Not in the defiant view of first-time French author Louisa Yousfi, who herself has North African roots. Taking its inspiration from the leading... -
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor 9780349016177
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IRENOSEN OKOJIEBy the bestselling author of The Women of Brewster PlaceWith its showcase homes and manicured lawns, an address in the wealthy Black American neighbourhood... -
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama 9781847670830 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.20Before he was president, he was senator. Written two years prior to the election that would change the face of the United States, The Audacity of Hope discusses the importance of empathy in politics,... -
Love: Vintage Minis Jeanette Winterson 9781784872724
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here... -
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his... -
Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022.Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost... -
Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide 9781913090746
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022.Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost... -
Mama Day Gloria Naylor 9780349016153
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40With a new introduction by Robert Jones, Jr, author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets'Gloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking story-teller. Mama Day is her... -
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature by Mary Jo Bona 9798855801996
Booksplease Price: £28.31Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.Mothers, Mobility, Narrative... -
Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism: Desire as Power Professor Chielozona Eze 9781350405677
Booksplease Price: £85.65The first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major Black women writers, an idea that has been widely accepted, this book explores Hurston's impact on... -
Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History by Hettie V. Williams 9781440835483
Booksplease Price: £76.11Covering the history and contributions of black women intellectuals from the late 19th century to the present, this book highlights individuals who are often overlooked in the study of the American... -
Alive at the End of the World by 9781566896511
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566896511Author Saeed JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
Painful Forms: Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945–2001 Anna Ioanes 9781469688930
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £63.53In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new... -
Painful Forms: Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945–2001 Anna Ioanes 9781469688947
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new... -
Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying by Beatrice Marovich
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Life and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that lives. Beatrice Marovich argues that such understandings of mortality have been... -
Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9781784873363
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take' Sunday Times ... -
Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood by Christina Bieber Lake
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.35Prophets of the Posthuman provides a fresh and original reading of fictional narratives that raise the question of what it means to be human in the face of rapidly developing bioenhancement... -
Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics by Ashmita Khasnabish 9781498532303
Booksplease Price: £51.70Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics scrutinizes Indian economist cum philosopher Amartya Sen's theory of capability, which rose as a critique of the modern American...