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Long Division by Kiese Laymon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a "funny, astute, searching" (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of... -
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £16.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781501125652Author Kiese LaymonFormat HardbackPage... -
Heavy by Kiese Laymon 9781526605764
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.78_______________ 'So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate ... A gift' - Jesmyn Ward 'Wow. Just wow' - Roxane Gay 'Unflinchingly honest' - Reni... -
Conversations with Kiese Laymon by Constance Bailey 9781496859044
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews... -
Conversations with Kiese Laymon by Constance Bailey 9781496858115
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews... -
City Summer, Country Summer Kiese Laymon 9780593405567
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable. Three Black boys... -
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon 9781501125669
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781501125669Author Kiese LaymonFormat... -
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays by Kiese Laymon
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982170820Author Kiese LaymonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher... -
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) by Sarah M Broom 9780802125088
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780802125088Author Sarah M BroomFormat... -
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) by Sarah M Broom 9780802149039
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802149039Author Sarah M BroomFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
Freeman's Family: The Best New Writing on Family by John Freeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Freeman's: Family is the second literary anthology in the series reviewers are calling 'illuminating' (National Public Radio) and 'sure to become a classic in years to come' (San Francisco Chronicle)... -
Freeman's Power by John Freeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is... -
No Sense in Wishing: Essays Lawrence Burney 9781668051863
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Kirkus Reviews "Earnest and engaging." -The New Yorker A personal and analytical essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal... -
The Broken King Michael Thomas 9780802120144
Booksplease Price: £22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802120144Author Michael ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Broken King Michael Thomas 9780802146090
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802146090Author Michael ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present by Mathias Nilges 9780810143425
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In How to Read a Moment, Mathias Nilges shows that time is inseparable from the stories we tell about it, demonstrating that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the... -
Black and More than Black: African American Fiction in the Post Era by Cameron Leader-Picone 9781496824516
Booksplease Price: £88.60Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along... -
Black and More than Black: African American Fiction in the Post Era by Cameron Leader-Picone 9781496824561
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along... -
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family Rabia Chaudry 9781643750385
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £9.88"A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!" -Valerie BertinelliRabia Chaudry-known... -
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this... -
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry 9781643755380
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56"A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!" -Valerie Bertinelli"My entire life I... -
Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape Rémy Ngamije 9781668012468
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55A vibrant and brilliant new collection of award-winning short fiction from the acclaimed author of the "charming, witty, and incredibly humane" (The Pittsburgh Gazette) debut The Eternal Audience of... -
The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley 9780241705513
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.28'Written in big, beautiful prose that expands throughout the novel and leaves the reader full and satisfied ... Leila Mottley's grasp of human nature is unmatched' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS-From the... -
The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley 9780241705506
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73AMAZON BEST PICK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION-'Written in big, beautiful prose that expands throughout the novel and leaves the reader full and... -
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America by Tommy Tomlinson 9781501111624
Booksplease Price: £11.95ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A "warm and funny and honest...genuinely unputdownable" (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it's like to live in today's world as a fat man, from acclaimed... -
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob 9781526631596
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME, BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, LIBRARY JOURNAL AND KIRKUS REVIEWS LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD 'Hilarious and... -
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Amy J. Elias 9781478030058
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. Speculative Light brings... -
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.01This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation. For scholar and... -
Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Amy J. Elias 9781478024873
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one another's artistic values. Speculative Light brings... -
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In the early 2000's, as an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took many years for her to realize what she was actually trying to... -
This Is Your Mother: A Memoir Erika J Simpson 9781668024034
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668024034Author Erika J SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg 9781668023600
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Inspired by Jami Attenberg's wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer's guidefeatures encouraging essayson creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors... -
Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman's Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fearz by Angela M. Neal-Barnett 9780743225380
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Do you or someone you love suffer from "bad nerves"? Denise is constantly on edge. She's convinced something bad is going to happen. Ruth will drive an hour out of her way to avoid driving over a... -
Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live by Amber Husain 9781668060315
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668060315Author Amber HusainFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y... -
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir by Hala Alyan 9781982182595
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982182595Author Hala AlyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life by Kao Kalia Yang 9781982185305
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982185305Author Kao Kalia YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
This Is Your Mother: A Memoir Erika J Simpson 9781668024041
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668024041Author Erika J SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones 9781501132742
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42WINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARD"Jones's voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down."... -
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Memoir/Autobiography) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781982152000Author Chloe Cooper... -
Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Raven Jackson 9781960078025
Booksplease Price: £46.05A rich and layered photographic exploration of the people and places that influenced Raven Jackson's directorial debut film, Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, the companion...