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Travellers by Helon Habila 9780241986295
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not only refugees... -
Oil on Water by Helon Habila
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq, an infamous media hack, knows what's in store, but Rufus, a keen young... -
Travelers: A Novel by Helon Habila 9780393358070
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.37Accompanying his wife on a prestigious arts fellowship in Berlin, a Nigerian scholar finds there are no walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of others in the African... -
Waiting for An Angel: A Novel by Helon Habila 9780393325119
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.39Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his... -
Measuring Time: A Novel by Helon Habila 9780393052510
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £19.28Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only... -
The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their... -
The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings & Islamic Militancy in Nigeria by Helon Habila 9780241980897
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46An urgent Penguin Special investigating the 2014 mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the world's deadliest terroristsOn 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern... -
Anthropocene Realism: Fiction in the Age of Climate Change John Thieme 9781350296077
Booksplease Price: £30.54Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.76Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as... -
Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place by Lenka Filipova 9780367754655
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion... -
Routledge Handbook of African Literature Moradewun Adejunmobi 9780367783877
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together... -
Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change by Adam Branch 9781780329970
Booksplease Price: £20.70From Egypt to South Africa, Nigeria to Ethiopia, a new force for political change is emerging across Africa: popular protest. Widespread urban uprisings by youth, the unemployed, trade unions,... -
Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa Ashleigh Harris 9780367235512
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the... -
African City Textualities by Ranka Primorac 9780415852531
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack,... -
Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam (University of Ilorin, Nigeria) 9780367625856
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book examines the intersection between cultural identities and development in African and the Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives. Starting with the premise that culture is one of the... -
Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent by Juan Meneses
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our... -
Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent by Juan Meneses 9781517906757
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our... -
Narrating the New African Diaspora: 21st Century Nigerian Literature in Context by Maximilian Feldner 9783030057428
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book provides the first comprehensive survey and collection of Nigerian diaspora literature, offering readings of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Helen... -
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know by 9780008469269
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation... -
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know by 9780008469306
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation... -
Anthropocene Realism: Fiction in the Age of Climate Change by John Thieme 9781350296039
Booksplease Price: £90.57Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and... -
The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstars by Sebastian Abbot 9780393356779
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.79Searching for soccer's next superstars, an audacious program called Football Dreams held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa. In The Away Game, Sebastian Abbot follows several of... -
This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New York Times 'MARVELLOUS.' Sara Collins 'EXTRAORDINARY.' Madeleine Thien 'HYPNOTIC... -
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This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 by Tsitsi Dangarembga 9780571355525 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.20ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New York Times 'MARVELLOUS.' Sara Collins 'EXTRAORDINARY.' Madeleine Thien 'HYPNOTIC... -
Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand by Anne Barlow 9781849767118
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25This book is both a document of the development of the exhibition and a view into Nkanga's creative process. Starting with a poem written by Nkanga herself, it also includes an extensive selection of... -
Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures by Peter Moopi 9781032578828
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in... -
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY and NERVOUS CONDITIONSONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second... -
Happy Accidents by Tiffany Murray 9780007183678
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Coming of age in rural England in the eighties is far from straightforward for Kate Happy, in a hilarious, highly-praised debut novel of family, secrets and dead ancestors in the attic. ... -
Writing a First Novel: Reflections on the Journey by Karen Stevens 9780230290822
Booksplease Price: £31.46In this inspiring collection of essays, a range of award-winning, established and newly published writers offer highly personal accounts of their creative processes. Authors reveal the anxieties,... -
Seventh Street Alchemy by 9781770091450
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05"Seventh Street Alchemy" by Brian Chikwava is the winner of the 2004 Caine Prize! This is the fifth anthology of Caine Prize shortlisted stories, and the third to include the proceedings of a Caine... -
The Middle Daughter by Chika Unigwe 9781838857936
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of her family, she is beguiled by an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed 'man of God' who... -
Ic3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain by Courttia Newland
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A celebratory 20th anniversary edition of A landmark collection from black writers across the literary spectrum'The fact that IC3, the police identity for Black, is the only collective term that... -
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon JamesWhite skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASSFuro Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job... -
ALT 38 Environmental Transformations: African Literature Today by Louise Green
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change. This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage... -
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma 9781786493187
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, 2019Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize,... -
A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta 9780007536108
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A rich, fearless novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Deola Bello is tired of London, but she's not ready to give up on life. When her charity job... -
ALT 38 Environmental Transformations: African Literature Today by Louise Green 9781847012609
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.78FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change. This special issue examines the... -
Yorùbá Boy Running Biyi Bandele 9780241995464
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBiyi Bandele was a novelist, playwright and filmmaker. He was the author of the novels, The Man Who Came in... -
Daughter in Exile: A Novel by Bisi Adjapon 9780063089006
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman's struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must... -
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta 9781847088383
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Mesmerizing storytelling... Under the Udala Trees is breathtaking, rich with history and heart' Tayari Jones One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed...