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The LAST ONE by Fatima Dass 9781913109851
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim... -
Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop by Leroy Logan
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Closing Ranks tells of an illustrious career, giving a behind the scenes look at the workings of the Metropolitan Police. One of the founder members of the Black Police Association Charitable Trust,... -
Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films by Dr Leroy Logan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'I was amazed and intrigued by the way Leroy had stood his ground and progressed within the Metropolitan Police against so many obstacles: hostility, outright racism and being repeatedly overlooked... -
Refocus: the Films of Steve Mcqueen Thomas Austin 9781399510936
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £90.83Explores British director Steve McQueen's diverse output, from video installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC The first full book-length study of McQueen to be published in... -
ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen Prof Thomas Austin 9781399510943
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Working across a range of formats, from video art and gallery installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC, Steve McQueen's prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and... -
Moving the Centre: Small Axe & Freedom Singer by Andrew Kushnir
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772013948Author Andrew KushnirFormat PaperbackPage Count 35000Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher... -
Erasure by Percival Everett 9780571370894
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Adapted into the Oscar-nominated major motion picture, American Fiction.'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books'A classic.' The Times'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street Journal'Sublime . . ... -
Your Show by Ashley Hickson-Lovence 9780571366804
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.53LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEAS HEARD ON R4s FRONT ROW'The football novel is back.' The TimesWonderful.' IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'A novel rich in both poetry and detail.' DAVID PEACE'Memorable and... -
A Crongton Story: In The Ends: Book 4 Alex Wheatle 9781444969634
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78WELCOME TO CRONGTON - where your loyalties and wits will be tested ...Things have been quiet in South Crongton. It's been an age since anyone last spotted Manjaro, South Crong's most notorious... -
The Pedagogy of Action: Small Axe Fall Big Tree by Nesha Z. Haniff 9789811908033
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88This is the story of teaching consciousness as a requirement for transformations in social justice. In artful narrative, Nesha Haniff traces her own conscientization as a colonized child in Guyana,... -
The Pedagogy of Action: Small Axe Fall Big Tree by Nesha Z. Haniff 9789811908002
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This is the story of teaching consciousness as a requirement for transformations in social justice. In artful narrative, Nesha Haniff traces her own conscientization as a colonized child in Guyana,... -
A LONG WAY FROM DOUALA by Max Lobe 9781913109011
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends... -
In the Scene: Steve McQueen Jen Francis 9781913641177
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Part of our new series of accessible introductory guides to significant contemporary filmmakers, this guide is a must for film fans and students of contemporary cinema alike. An introductory chapter... -
THE COFFER DAMS by KAMALA MARKANDAYA
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers, arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife, Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are faced... -
DUPPY CONQUEROR by Ferdinand Dennis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Marshall Sarjeant is born at the beginning of the 20th century in Paradise, Jamaica. As a young man, he is entrusted with a mythical quest to overcome a curse that has been put on his family. He must... -
ON TERRORISM: Conversations with my Daughter by Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781916467118
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Terrorism Explained to Our Kids, takes the form of a dialogue between the author and his teenage daughter. Using her ill-defined fears as the starting point, Exploring all forms of terrorism in both... -
Another Man in the Street Caryl Phillips 9781526678638
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)In... -
Another Man in the Street Caryl Phillips 9781526679949
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)**A... -
Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Inspiring... Important' Observer'A page-turner which everyone who cares about policing and justice in Britain should read.' Meera SyalAt the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police... -
Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya 9781913109110
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and... -
ARTEMISIA by Anna Banti 9781913109004
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62First published in 1953, Artemisia is a classic of 20th century Italian literature. From its first publication in 1953, Artemisia, a novel about Artemisia Gentileschi, an iconic 17th century painter,... -
Screen Deep by Ellen E. Jones 9780571369423
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.03Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in... -
Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world Ellen E. Jones 9780571369447
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79'A brilliantly readable and insightful book.' Mark Kermode, Observer'Deftly, delightfully, yet inexorably, Ellen E Jones shows us exactly what's wrong with the world as we usually see it on screen. ... -
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: The Ebola Tales by Veronique Tadjo 9781913109790
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an... -
Brixton Rock by Alex Wheatle
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"Pacy; witty; his characters are real and recognisable" LINTON KWESI JOHNSON"Alex Wheatle is the real deal; he writes with heart and authenticity, books that make you laugh and worry and cry and... -
Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and other stories by JOHN AGARD 9781913109875
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In the title story, Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and his sidekick Rudeyard Fly are sent for by the Criminal Investigation Department of Middleham-by-Sea - a little town known for tea shops, pet shops,... -
Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside by Max Lobe 9781913109905
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The narrator, Mwana, is a young man from Bantuland, living in Geneva. A graduate from a Swiss university, we first encounter Mwana waiting for a bus in the hills of Lugano gazing at a poster calling... -
Renegade: The Life and Times of Darcus Howe by Robin Bunce
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.62Explore the struggle for racial justice in Britain through the lens of one of Britain's most prominent and controversial Black journalists and campaigners. Born in Trinidad during the dying days... -
The Nowhere Man by Kamala Markandaya
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in a south London suburb for thirty years. After the death of his son, and later his wife, this lonely man is befriended by an Englishwoman in her... -
The Black and White Museum by Ferdinand Dennis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61From Ferdinand Dennis, the critically acclaimed author of the novel Duppy Conqueror, comes The Black and White Museum, a collection of both highly personal and universal short stories. These at their... -
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the... -
Island Songs Alex Wheatle 9781529422597
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"This novel will be nostalgia trip for anyone who grew up in similar circumstances and a breath of fresh Jamaican air for anyone else" The Voice Jenny and Hortense Rodney have always loved and hated... -
East of Acre Lane by Alex Wheatle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion' Steve McQueen, director of Small Axe East of Acre Lane is the fast-paced and razor sharp... -
Steve McQueen: Sunshine State Steve McQueen 9791254630082
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £36.57A career-spanning introduction to the award-winning director of Small Axe, with contributions from Paul Gilroy, Hamza Walker and more Declared by Time "one of the most influential people in the... -
The Colour Line by Igiaba Scego 9781913109202
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't... -
EXHUMATION: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra by LEENA DHINGRA 9781913109820
Booksplease Price: £14.24In Exhumation, Madan Lal's great niece, the actor and writer Leena Dhingra, unravels and reveals his remarkable story. Born in Amritsar, the sixth of seven sons of an eminent surgeon, Madan Lal... -
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... -
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... -
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In the stunning sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin, bestselling author Nic Stone unflinchingly explores the impact of racism and inequality on young Black lives. For readers of... -
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42"Kehinde Andrews is a crucial voice walking in a proud tradition of Black radical criticism and action" Akala"An uncompromising account of the roots of racism today" Kimberle Crenshaw "This...