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A Ladybird Book: Windrush by Colin Grant
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.24The 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... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97'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... -
Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey ... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49One 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: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.99A 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 9780195393095
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $39.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195393095Author Colin GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint -
I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer by Colin Grant 9780099526728
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69Discover 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,... -
What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain by Colin Grant 9781787333161
Booksplease Price: $41.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant 9781529918366
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49A 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... -
What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain by Sheela Banerjee 9781529367591
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $33.84A 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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'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: $36.08Booksplease Price: $21.13On 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... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story Alford Dalrymple Gardner 9781914344237
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69"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... -
Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24BY 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... -
Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide by Lynsey Hanley
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'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. ... -
Reproduction by Ian Williams 9780349701813
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $6.44WINNER 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... -
Reproduction by Ian Williams
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.43WINNER 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 9780349701394
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.86'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 Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88'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: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54'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 Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier by Samantha Harvey
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23**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 Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.97'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... -
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49'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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97*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: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'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... -
Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00'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,... -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Let 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'... -
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson 9781783783397
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67'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... -
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.46'[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... -
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Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored by Jeffrey Boakye 9780349700564 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.81AFRO-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... -
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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch 9781784705039 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.71From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today.You're... -
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell 9780349701981
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book... -
Heads of the Colored People Nafissa Thompson-Spires 9781784706586
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23A satirical and daring collection of short stories exploring black life from one of America's rising stars. ... -
Giving (Back): How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $16.04Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book... -
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford 9781780229072
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian CoxThis is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834
RRP: $36.01Booksplease Price: $31.94"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin... -
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $15.11Discover how the campaign to end slavery divided Britain and was almost thwarted by some of the most powerful and famous figures of the era.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL... -
Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95'Niven Govinden's Diary of a Film, his sixth novel, is also his best yet. Smart, sexy and cinematic (in many senses), it is a love letter to Italy and to film' Observer'Immersive . . . This is a wise... -
Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut by Paul Mendez
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24AN OBSERVER TOP TEN DEBUT 2020, SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE, JHALAK PRIZE, POLARI PRIZE, AND THE FICTION DEBUT CATEGORY OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSRainbow Milk is an intersectional... -
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Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut by Paul Mendez 9780349700588 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.58AN OBSERVER TOP TEN DEBUT 2020, SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE, JHALAK PRIZE, POLARI PRIZE, AND THE FICTION DEBUT CATEGORY OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSRainbow Milk is an intersectional...