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Roots by Alex Haley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence FishburneTracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and... -
Roots Alex Haley 9781784873387
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Discover Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature.Tracing his ancestry through six... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern... -
Mama Flora's Family by Alex Haley 9780440614098
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's the Autobiography of Malcolm X by James Baldwin 9780307275943
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275943Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne 9781631491665
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.35Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all... -
Taproots of Tennessee: Historic Sites and Timeless Recipes by Lynne Drysdale Patterson 9781621905110
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £5.52What was served at President James K. Polk's White House dinners? What foods graced the table of John Sevier, Tennessee's First Governor? In Taproots of Tennessee, Lynne Drysdale Patterson answers... -
Injustice: Vintage Minis by Richard Wright
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book,... -
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind 9780300281910
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre "When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers'... -
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... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 9780141995151
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens... -
What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World: A Memoir by Dorothy Lazard
Booksplease Price: £15.73From one of California's most celebrated librarians and public historians, a coming-of-age memoir about the thirst for knowledge and hometown pride.A Best Book of the Year, Oakland Public Library2023... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of... -
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook by Georgann Eubanks 9780807859797
Booksplease Price: £35.13Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct... -
Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell 9781496816306
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit... -
Queen Charlotte Sophia: A Royal Affair by Tina Andrews 9781914344862
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54In an atmosphere of abolition and revolution, Queen Charlotte Sophia, Britain's most famous (possibly) mixed-race Princess comes alive in this reimagined story of her life where romance, adventure... -
Queen Charlotte Sophia: A Royal Affair by Tina Andrews 9781914344879
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Newly crowned King George III must marry, but cannot wed the woman he loves - Catholic Lady Sarah Lennox. And so, a search begins for an appropriate Queen... In comes Charlotte of... -
The Gambia by Sean Connolly 9781804690611
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Co-authored by regional expert Sean Connolly and Philip Briggs, the world's foremost guidebook writer on Africa, this third edition of Bradt's The Gambia remains the most comprehensive guide... -
Land of My Fathers Vamba Sherif 9781908446497
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the 19th century with the triumphant return of the freed slaves from America to Africa.The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the 19th century with... -
Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665913621
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.08A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and stunning art by her son Jeffery Boston... -
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty, brilliance, compassion and ultimately, hope'... -
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 9780241975237
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.60A 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... -
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 9780241980446
Booksplease Price: £9.41A 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...