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A Ladybird Book: Windrush by Colin Grant
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68The arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, Essex in 1948 was turned into a significant event by the British media but it is only one small part of a bigger story.Windrush looks at the... -
Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey ... -
Altruism and Christian Ethics by Colin Grant 9780521791441
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic... -
Altruism and Christian Ethics by Colin Grant 9780521093613
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again... -
Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia by Colin Grant
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ... -
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant 9780195367942
Booksplease Price: £104.68New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of... -
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant 9780195393095
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195393095Author Colin GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Oxford University Press... -
I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer by Colin Grant 9780099526728
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Discover the untold history of reggae legends of Bob Marley and the original Wailers.The perfect must-read if you loved the film One Love.Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trench Town R&B crooners,... -
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR... -
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant 9781529918366
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR... -
Enhancing Experiences: Physical Education and Health-Related Movement for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Colin Grant Pennington 9798886974041
RRP: £72.99Booksplease Price: £60.36This book contains collected works from kinesiology, sport pedagogy, coaching, and physical education professionals at the graduate level, as well as observations and ideas from the editor, a... -
What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain by Sheela Banerjee 9781529367591
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.81A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliantly enlightening book . . . at times moving, at others ironic, full of insights and detail'Michael Rosen'A kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK . . . with... -
The World's War by David Olusoga
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.48On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies... -
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them Ekow Eshun 9780241472026
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025A Book of the Year 2024 in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and ObserverRichly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story Alford Dalrymple Gardner 9781914344237
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The GuardianRAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford... -
Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide by Lynsey Hanley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal' Hilary MantelLynsey Hanley grew up part of the 'respectable working class'. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. ... -
Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02BY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD 'Fierce, insightful and often devilishly funny' COLIN GRANT, GUARDIAN 'One of the greatest... -
Final Approach: My Father and Other Turbulence by Mark Blackburn 9781910461747
Booksplease Price: £14.37Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. The 1970s were the final gasp of the Golden Age of Flying. Mark Blackburn grew up amidst this... -
Reproduction by Ian Williams
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.Reproduction tells a crooked love... -
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion: Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex by Sally Cline 9781474268301
Booksplease Price: £27.52Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death,... -
Reproduction by Ian Williams 9780349701813
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.Reproduction tells a crooked love... -
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. Terrific' The Times 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn WardMitchell S. Jackson grew up... -
The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction by Sally Cline 9781408131237
Booksplease Price: £25.58The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction is an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and... -
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson 9780349701394
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. Terrific' The Times 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn WardMitchell S. Jackson grew up... -
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands by Stuart Hall 9780141984759
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the... -
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary... -
Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery by Tim Strangleman
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.50Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and... -
The Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier by Samantha Harvey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.80**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read** 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. And it's painful. And it's beautiful. And I love it... -
The Murderer by Roy Heath
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'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... -
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the TopknotThe brain is the most complex structure in the... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi 9781529114676
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X... -
No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780241711187
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the... -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat'... -
Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture,... -
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' - Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday TimesIn this vital re-examination... -
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored by Jeffrey Boakye
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.99AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK.These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black... -
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson 9781783783397
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times 'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian The daughter of a successful...