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The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel' New York Review of BooksSitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his... -
Moses Ascending by Sam Selvon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Moses thinks he's got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in Shepherd's Bush, London. He has visions of being master of his own domain,... -
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels. This Penguin Modern Classics edition... -
Calypso in London by Sam Selvon 9780241630877
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon 9780241504123
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition.At Waterloo Station,... -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780582642614
Booksplease Price: £15.82The master-storyteller turns his pen to rural village life with Ways of Sunlight in Trinidad: gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen; toiling cane-cutters reaping their harvest; superstitious... -
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon 9780143133964
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133964Author Sam SelvonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin... -
Highway in the Sun Sam Selvon 9780948833076
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The first Indian indentured labourers arrived in the Caribbean over 150 years ago. But how are the Indian characters in these plays to live in 20th century Trinidad? These plays explore their... -
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon 9781350496576
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86London will do for you for now... And I will do for London. London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a... -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780241654538
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive' Sunday Times'You could be lonely as hell in the city, then... -
A Brighter Sun by Samuel Selvon
Booksplease Price: £15.82There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories,... -
Eldorado West One Samuel Selvon 9780948833069
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61After long hard years in the Old Brit'n, will Moses Aloetta ever save enough money to realise his dreams of returning to his native Trinidad? Not if those 'damn vagabonds and reprobates', Sir... -
Samuel Selvon by Roydon Salick 9780746309742
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £14.24The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world - poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows the evolution of Selvon as fledging author of poems and... -
The Novels of Samuel Selvon: A Critical Study by Roydon Salick 9780313316364
Booksplease Price: £76.51The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly... -
Beyond Calypso: Re-Reading Samuel Selvon by Malachi McIntosh 9789766378615
Booksplease Price: £21.20Beyond Calypso breaks this trend by presenting wide-ranging analyses that consider the full body of Selvon's writing.Book InformationISBN 9789766378615Author Malachi McIntoshFormat PaperbackPage... -
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender by 9789766401719
Booksplease Price: £33.65This book is the first comprehensive treatment of gender in the works of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, two important West Indian writers who are rarely analysed together. It demystifies... -
The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives by Erin James
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20"Storyworlds," mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds... -
African Diaspora and the Metropolis: Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience by Dr. Fassil Demissie
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out... -
Standing Heavy by Gauz
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE"Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The MajestiesInitially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile... -
: Colour, Culture, and Consciousness (1974): Immigrant Intellectuals in Britain by Bhikhu Parekh
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23First published in 1974, this book gives a detailed and thoughtful examination on immigration in Britain, specifying the experiences of non-white intellectuals. In the first section - Viewpoint -... -
Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK) 9780415345675
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine. Conducted by a wide constituency of distinguished... -
Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...'Francis... -
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 9781784752460 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.29_________________A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise... -
To Sir With Love by E. R. Braithwaite
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A milestone in the campaign for racial equality' GuardianIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain Jason Okundaye 9780571372225
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A TLS AND GQ BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESAnnouncing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'A... -
The Lowlife: (Faber Editions) Alexander Baron 9780571393473
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The day they moved in was a memorable one for me. Not because of them, for I couldn't know what they were to bring into my life, but because of a dog.Harryboy Boas is a gambling man. An independent... -
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn 9780140439885
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This... -
Dat's Love by Leonora Brito 9780241999516
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A brilliant collection of short stories from Leonora Brito exploring race, identity, and love'Magical, enigmatic, distinctive, accomplished and haunting . . . Brito was ahead of her time' BERNARDINE... -
Yesterday Will Make You Cry Chester Himes 9780241692646
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Thrill-seeking white teenager Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. The penitentiary is a place where terror and chaos reign, where corrupt guards inflict casual and insidious... -
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel Harper Lee 9781784752460
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73_________________A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye 9780571372218
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, tears and... -
If He Hollers, Let Him Go Chester Himes 9780241692424
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life... -
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo) by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and... -
A Wreath for Udomo (Faber Editions) by Peter Abrahams
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday TimesThose men who are history now; did they feel like this? A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes... -
Maud Martha (Faber Editions): 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo by Gwendolyn Brooks
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37AS 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... -
Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) by Wilson Harris
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'An... -
Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.17The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and... -
The Shape Of That Hurt Gordon Rohlehr 9781845234645
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Continuing on from his outstanding collection of literary criticism, My Strangled City and other essays, literary critic and Professor Gordon Rohlehr delves further, examining the work of Sam Selvon,... -
Reimaging Britain: 500 Years of Black and Asian History by Ron Ramdin 9780745315997
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.55A full understanding of Black and Asian history within the British context is integral to achieving a truly multicultural Britain. In this landmark book, Ron Ramdin offer the first complete history... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary...