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Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent... -
Listener Lemn Sissay 9781841958958
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice - visionary, good-humoured and... -
Refugee Boy by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.99An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his... -
Don't Ask the Dragon by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53This is the story of a little boy called Alem who goes on an adventure. It's his birthday, but who knows where he can go to celebrate it?Maybe the bear, the fox, the treefrog or the bulldog know? But... -
Rebel Without Applause by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city and have been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has been... -
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERINDIE BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION WINNER'EXTRAORDINARY' The Times, 'BEAUTIFUL' Dolly Alderton, 'SHATTERING' Observer, 'INCREDIBLE' Benjamin Zephaniah,... -
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay 9781805301134
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO GIFTFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning... -
Let the Light Pour In Lemn Sissay 9781837262670
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own... -
Don't Ask the Dragon Lemn Sissay 9781838854003
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02This is the story of a little boy called Alem who goes on an adventure. It's his birthday, but who knows where he can go to celebrate it?Maybe the bear, the fox, the treefrog or the bulldog know? But... -
Morning Breaks In The Elevator Lemn Sissay 9780862418380
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lemn Sissay brings together a stunning new collection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay's work, we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art, establishing his reputation as one... -
The Book of Manchester: A City in Short Fiction Lemn Sissay 9781905583119
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905583119Author David SueFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Comma PressPublisher Comma Press -
The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry First published in 1998, The Fire People celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names. Edited by... -
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems Lemn Sissay 9781782119456
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.04Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built... -
Refugee Boy Benjamin Zephaniah 9781350171916
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.11An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his... -
Where the Missing Gather: 'Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now!' Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why by Helen Sedgwick
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'Unputdownable... Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now! It's an incredible book! READ IT.' Lemn Sissay on When the Dead Come Calling Gone but not forgotten... An... -
Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture by Dr. Lynne Pearce 9780719088155
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah's concept of... -
Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture Lynne Pearce 9781526120014
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.71Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah's concept of... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa... -
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry UnboundThis inspiring collection, edited by Padraig O Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive... -
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama 9781838856359
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This inspiring collection, curated by the host of the Poetry Unbound, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Padraig's illuminating... -
Everything That Happened: Manchester International Festival by Sarah Walters 9781911397656
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from disused railway stations... -
Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers: A Weather Poem for Every Day of the Year: Volume 8 Jane McMorland Hunter 9781837330416
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.07Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers: A Weather Poem for Every Day of the Year is an anthology of classic and contemporary poems, all about the weather.This latest anthology from Jane McMorland Hunter... -
Hidden Gems by Deirdre Osborne 9781840028430
Booksplease Price: £24.92This is a collection of six extraordinary plays, all of which experiment with form, subject matter, and genre in order to comment on the modern black experience in terms of culture, politics, and... -
What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.22'A superb study ... brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew - but never understood' EMILY MAITLIS ... -
Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah 9781408894996
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17'Playful, obstinate and courageously humorous ... hilarious and later heartbreaking' Guardian 'Sweet, funny, highly inventive' Yorkshire Post The personal, funny and poignant tale of a young... -
What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'A superb study ... brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew - but never understood' EMILY MAITLIS ... -
A Woman Like Me: A Memoir Diane Abbott 9780241993668
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDiane Abbott was born in London in 1953, to parents who were part of the Windrush generation. She has been... -
Poems: Edna St Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9781841597850
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82One of America's best-loved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and... -
Hourglass: A 'beautiful, funny, profound' (New Statesman) debut novel about love and loss Keiran Goddard 9781408714874
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A universal love story' Guardian'Beautiful and very funny' Brett Anderson'This book glows in the heart of the reader' Max Porter'This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient... -
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and... -
COAT by Yomi Sode 9781786825711
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £13.44Yomi 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... -
Poems Of The Sea J D McClatchy 9781841597461
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids,... -
This is Temporary: How transient projects are redefining architecture by St. Cate Hill
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £32.23Temporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces. Branded 'pop-ups' and follies to provide a moment of light entertainment they are in fact borne of a long history of more holistic... -
Spoken Word in the UK by Lucy English
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Spoken Word in the UK is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK - its origins and development, its performers and audiences, and the vast array of different... -
A Woman Like Me: A Memoir Diane Abbott 9780241536414
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.47From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it all.A Woman Like Me... -
Somebody's Daughter: The International Bestseller and an Amazon.com book of 2021 by Ashley C Ford
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28"Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting ... when the book ended, I only wanted more" - Roxane Gay"Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the... -
Hourglass: Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 by Keiran Goddard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.64A short, exquisite novel about love, loss and making sense of the world - as heartbreakingly moving as it is outrageous and funny 'A universal love story' Guardian 'Beautiful, funny, profound ..... -
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C Ford
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16"Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting ... when the book ended, I only wanted more" - Roxane Gay"Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the... -
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal, the captivating and darkly-comic novel Just in Case is a thrilling coming-of-age story - described by The Times as a modern The Catcher in the Rye - from the... -
The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips - inspired by Wuthering Heights.It is the 1960s. Isolated from her parents...