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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... -
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe Sarah Churchwell 9781526613349
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.22'Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight' VOGUE 'Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories' NEW YORK TIMES ... -
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $30.57ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL IN NON-FICTION 'This will be read for many, many years to come as a... -
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music Various 9781474621496
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz... -
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 9781399613880
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59'Both book and life are unforgettable' New York Times 'Read it twice and then read it again' Ann PatchettAt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with cancer. When she returned to school with a third... -
Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces) by Will Ashon 9781783784042
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.00'One of the most rewarding pieces of hip-hop criticism ever written' Jeff Chang 'Brilliant' Giles Peterson 'Will Ashon's dazzling study gets to the heart of hip hop, pop culture and the history of... -
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History by Emmanuel Iduma
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $30.57'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate'... -
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War by Emmanuel Iduma 9780008430764
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.73'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate'... -
Butter: Novellas, Stories and Fragments by Gayl Jones
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.86'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE'Gayl Jones is a literary legend' - Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of THERE ARE MORE THINGS'Her... -
Maud Martha (Faber Editions): 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo by Gwendolyn Brooks
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S 'A GOOD READ'Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine... -
Rhode Island Red Charlotte Carter 9781399803885
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88**A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of the Year**'This year's most original fictional detective - a sassy, black intellectual and saxophonist who is plunged into mayhem when an undercover cop gets... -
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Sally Rooney: 'High intelligence and beauty.'Margo Jefferson: 'Extraordinary'Rediscover a lost American classic in this kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, with a new introduction by... -
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $34.35Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men... -
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520285958
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $41.23"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly... -
Neverland: The pleasures and perils of fandom Vanessa Kisuule 9781838857073
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09Vanessa Kisuule is a big Michael Jackson fan. This fixation once gave her great joy, but now it keeps her up at night. In her bracingly honest, energetic and lively book she explores the fall-out... -
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas 9781800751767
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVE Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and... -
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood 9781476739342
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $24.15Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out. So off she sets on a darkly comic foray... -
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family Dorothy Roberts 9781668068380
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.96From Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who "has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades" (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting... -
Franci's War by Franci Epstein
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge by David Hajdu
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.60Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged... -
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge by David Hajdu 9780231191838
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $29.58Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged... -
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity Nadia Owusu 9781529342864
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES'One of the literary world's most... -
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke 9781982135492
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88One of Esquire's 20 Best Books of Fall * One of Time's Most Anticipated Books of Fall"A deeply thought, rigorously researched, and riveting history of human butts. Radke knows exactly when to... -
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity Nadia Owusu 9781529342895
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06*** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ***'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliant and devastating . . . tender and lacerating'... -
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $26.62*ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL: Esquire, Time, LitHub, The Every Girl, BookPage* "Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction-the kind that forces you to see something...