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Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.38The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and... -
In Praise of Love and Children by Beryl Gilroy
Booksplease Price: £13.93After false starts in teaching and social work, Melda Hayley finds her mission in fostering the damaged children of the first generation of black settlers in a deeply racist Britain. But though Melda... -
Inkle and Yarico by Beryl Gilroy 9780948833984
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94As a young man of twenty, Thomas Inkle sets out for Barbados to inspect the family sugar estates. On the way he is shipwrecked on a small West Indian island inhabited by Carib Indians. He alone... -
Gather the Faces by Beryl Gilroy 9780948833885
Booksplease Price: £16.84Marvella Payne is twenty-seven, works as a secretary for British Rail and has pledged to the congregation of the Church of the Holy Spirit that she will abstain from sex before marriage. When she... -
The Green Grass Tango by Beryl Gilroy 9781900715478
Booksplease Price: £18.30When Alfred Grayson, a retired and recently widowed civil servant, decides to buy a dog, Sheba gives him a passport to the diverse multi-racial community of dog-walkers and bench-sitters who meet in... -
Sunlight on Sweet Water by Beryl Gilroy 9780948833649
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27Beryl Gilroy transports the reader back to the Guyanese village of her childhood over sixty years ago to meet such characters as Mr Dewsbury the Dog Doctor, Mama Darlin' the village midwife and Mr... -
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo) by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and... -
Literature and Institutions of Welfare Dr Jess Cotton 9781843847311
Booksplease Price: £30.43Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present. The welfare state in Britain established a... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler 9781805462866
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.91'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler 9781805462859
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first... -
The Murderer by Roy Heath
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with... -
Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English by Mary Conde 9780333637692
Booksplease Price: £37.25Caribbean Women Writers is a collection of scholarly articles on the fiction of selected Caribbean women writers from Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad. It... -
Who am I, again? by Lenny Henry 9780571342594 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.28Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think... -
Who am I, again? by Lenny Henry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79** PRE ORDER LENNY HENRY'S NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY RISING TO THE SURFACE NOW **Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his... -
Who am I, again? by Lenny Henry 9780571342600
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.49Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think... -
Who am I, again? by Lenny Henry
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.61Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think... -
Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction by Stanka Radovi 9780813936291
Booksplease Price: £30.40While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism's impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radovic asks both how ordinary people as "users" of space have been... -
Samuel Selvon by Roydon Salick 9780746309742
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £14.24The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world - poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows the evolution of Selvon as fledging author of poems and... -
Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century by Pamela J. Albert
Booksplease Price: £15.34Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana),... -
Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile by Myriam Chancy 9781566395403
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Home. Exile. Return. Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes animate the lives and writings of dispossessed Afro-Caribbean women. Understanding exile as flight...