Filter By
Books (64)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Inua Ellams: Plays One by Inua Ellams
Booksplease Price: $42.80Inua Ellams has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in British and international theatre. Collected together for the first time are four of Ellams' acclaimed plays, including... -
Untitled by Inua Ellams
Booksplease Price: $22.02To name something is to call it into life, to determine its future. If we let our children name themselves, will they author their own destinies? Will the nameless ones be free? Untitled is a magical... -
Cape by Inua Ellams
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $22.97It's a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform; 2. Protect who you love, what you care about; 3. Let nothing get in your way. Someone mugged Bruce's mum and he is not having it. The shock is still... -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
Booksplease Price: $22.621988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle... -
Antigone by Inua Ellams 9781350430136
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18Are you angry with policing or Polyneices? Them, we can change. He, is dead. Speak to Creon... Ask him to release Polyneices... we will bury him quietly, peacefully, together. A torn family. A... -
Cape by Inua Ellams 9781783190669
Booksplease Price: $28.84It's a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform 2. Protect who you love, what you care about 3. Let nothing get in your way Someone mugged Bruce's mum and he is not having it. The shock is still... -
#Afterhours by Inua Ellams 9781911027164
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84In 2015, Inua Ellams was poet in residence at the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London. His #Afterhours project took him on a voyage of cultural translation and transposition through time... -
The Little Prince by Inua Ellams 9781786828705
Booksplease Price: $24.67Broken down in the Sahara Desert, a pilot meets an extraordinary Little Prince, travelling across time and space to bring peace to his warring planet.Inua Ellams' magical retelling of the much loved... -
The Spalding Suite by Inua Ellams 9781783198078
Booksplease Price: $24.90When we were young, we worshipped stars, gleaming long-limbed godsframed in the act of impossible flight. For a time we tried to follow, to carve out our own piece of sky with a... -
The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.90From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. ... -
Three Sisters Inua Ellams 9781350473188
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Knight Watch by Inua Ellams 9781849434041
Booksplease Price: $28.90In a world where tower blocks are stone mountains and city walls are urban tapestries retelling epic fights, Michael keeps away from the warring tribes until a passerby helps him out of a tight... -
13 Fairy Negro Tales by Inua Ellams
Booksplease Price: $9.40The second in the ground-breaking mouthmark series, 13 Fairy Negro Tales is a vibrant pamphlet of contemporary poetry. In language scooped directly from a paintbrush, Inua Ellams announced his... -
The Half-God of Rainfall Inua Ellams 9780008324803
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. ... -
Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams 9781350200142
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places... -
The Mouthmark Book of Poetry by Inua Ellams 9781905233151
Booksplease Price: $40.95'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La... -
Barber Shop Chronicles Inua Ellams (Author) 9781350281714
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London. Inspired in part by the... -
Candy-Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars by Inua Ellams 9781905233335
Booksplease Price: $9.40Candy-Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars is a document of transformations: the possibilities that walk the fine line between the real and the surreal, the mundane and the extraordinary... -
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 9781350262782
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.36Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their... -
The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01Evening Standard's Wander List Guide to 2019 Getaways"A beautiful, brilliant modern classic." Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian, Best Summer Books 2018Neha has just been diagnosed with the same terminal... -
OneTrackMinds: True stories about life-changing songs by Kristian Brodie 9781800181007
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.94Put your headphones on, close your eyes. Embrace the possibility of the life-changing power of music. And perhaps one of these songs will change your life too.Music can inspire our greatest... -
The Mouthmark Book of Poetry by Nii Ayikwei Parkes 9781905233496
Booksplease Price: $25.86'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La... -
COAT by Yomi Sode 9781786825711
Booksplease Price: $26.25Yomi Sode's hit show COAT tackles immigration, identity and displacement.'I don't know my grandparents' names, how embarrassing is that? But I can name all of Kanye's albums.'Nigeria: a grandmother... -
New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism Aleks Sierz 9781350567924
Booksplease Price: $99.86This is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental style. A guide to the key plays and playwriting innovations, it... -
New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism Aleks Sierz 9781350567917
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.38"Informative, provocative and entertaining all at the same time." - Michael BillingtonThis is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a... -
One Thousand Suns: MPT No. 2: 2016 by Sasha Dugdale 9781910485118
RRP: $13.65Booksplease Price: $11.66MPT's summer issue 'One Thousand Suns' focuses on poetry from African languages, with a selection of new translations of Senegalese poet Mama Seck Mbacke, Beninese Agnes Agboton and an interview with... -
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know by 9780008469269
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.02To 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.63To 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... -
Before Them, We by Ruth Sutoyé
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $22.97BEFORE THEM, WE is an anthology that explores the lives of migrant grandparents and elders from Africa, unpacking the intimate details of their lives before the families they went on to establish:... -
Poetry & Covid-19 by Anthony Caleshu 9781848617599
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26The publication of this anthology comes a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. In the summer of 2020, we invited nineteen UK poets to partner with poets from around the world, to work collaboratively on... -
More Than One Story: An Anthology of Monologues on Homelessness and Poverty Various 9781839045196
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'All around you see us. Broken, breaking, mending, Don't pretend you can't hear us too.' This anthology is testimony, resistance, a nationwide act of creative truth-telling. This is More Than... -
Readerful Books for Sharing: Year 5/Primary 6: The Great Untamed: Poems to Share Catherine Baker 9781382040891
RRP: $19.99Booksplease Price: $14.59Swim with cuttlefish, soar with an eagle, fly with swallows to the moon. Howl with a mother wolf and sit under thunderstorms in this naturally stunning collection of poems to share. This collection... -
the heart is a holding Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson 9781913958428
RRP: $14.63Booksplease Price: $11.60the heart is a holding is a visceral journey through birth, life and death cycles across personal, intergenerational and ancestral time. A journey to call in states of repair and collective... -
Swallowed By a Whale: How to Survive the Writing Life Huw Lewis-Jones 9780712353038
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48In this specially-commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the... -
Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781780376714
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.40In 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020 it was over 20%. The Complete Works Poetry – an initiative spearheaded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine... -
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories by Mathilda Della Torre
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.41'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on... -
On Trampolining by Rebecca Perry 9781739616014
Booksplease Price: $24.73When Rebecca Perry was growing up, she competed nationally and internationally as a trampolinist. This immersive and compelling book deftly blends memoir and lyrical nonfiction to explore a time she... -
Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City by 9781908058188
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britain's highest peak? This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of... -
Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen Malika's Poetry Kitchen 9781472155061
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06One of the Evening Standard's Best Non-fiction 2021.'We knew that black and brown bodies, working class voices, women's voices, did not have a space where they could be heard - and so this writing... -
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry by Kayo Chingonyi 9781838855321
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.30A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape...