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The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'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... -
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Both 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... -
Moses Ascending by Sam Selvon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46Moses 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 9780241504123
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.21The 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,... -
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon 9780143133964
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133964Author Sam SelvonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Calypso in London by Sam Selvon 9780241630877
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Introducing 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 9781350496576
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.78London 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'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... -
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The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi 9780571245871 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €3.86Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a... -
A Brighter Sun by Samuel Selvon
Booksplease Price: €18.83There 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,... -
Samuel Selvon by Roydon Salick 9780746309742
RRP: €22.24Booksplease Price: €16.95The 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: €90.21The 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: €25.23Beyond Calypso breaks this trend by presenting wide-ranging analyses that consider the full body of Selvon's writing.Book InformationISBN 9789766378615Author Malachi McIntoshFormat PaperbackPage Cou -
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender by 9789766401719
Booksplease Price: €40.50This 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
Booksplease Price: €66.71"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: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30At 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... -
: Colour, Culture, and Consciousness (1974): Immigrant Intellectuals in Britain by Bhikhu Parekh
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €41.16First 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: €48.78Booksplease Price: €46.21Writing 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46'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... -
Standing Heavy by Gauz
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €11.02"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... -
To Sir With Love by E. R. Braithwaite
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91**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... -
Yesterday Will Make You Cry Chester Himes 9780241692646
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Thrill-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... -
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn 9780140439885
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Restoration-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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A 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... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain Jason Okundaye 9780571372225
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A 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... -
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 9781784755287
Booksplease Price: €9.62_________________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... -
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 9781784752460 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €1.54_________________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... -
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel Harper Lee 9781784752460
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91_________________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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11Announcing 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The 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... -
The Lowlife: (Faber Editions) Alexander Baron 9780571393473
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The 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... -
Maud Martha (Faber Editions): 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo by Gwendolyn Brooks
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70AS 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... -
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo) by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'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... -
Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) by Wilson Harris
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €6.40The 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... -
Reimaging Britain: 500 Years of Black and Asian History by Ron Ramdin 9780745315997
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €28.44A 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'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... -
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The Resurrection of the "Spectre": A Marxist Analysis of Race, Class and Alienation in the Post-war British Novel by Sercan Hamza Baglama 9783631767504
RRP: €62.00Booksplease Price: €55.78This book analyses the literary works of Alan Sillitoe, Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing and James Kelman since each of them is a representative of a different class or colour or gender or region in... -
Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction by Margaret Paul Joseph 9780313281075
Booksplease Price: €91.05The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's The Tempest has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. The present study utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of...