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The LAST ONE by Fatima Dass 9781913109851
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.41The 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: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films by Dr Leroy Logan
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15'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... -
Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop by Leroy Logan
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.16Closing 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,... -
Erasure by Percival Everett 9780571370894
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Adapted 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.42LONGLISTED 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 LONG WAY FROM DOUALA by Max Lobe 9781913109011
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82On 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... -
THE COFFER DAMS by KAMALA MARKANDAYA
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Clinton, 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Marshall 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Terrorism 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 9781526679949
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'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
Booksplease Price: $15.26Married 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.56First 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,... -
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: The Ebola Tales by Veronique Tadjo 9781913109790
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Two 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... -
Renegade: The Life and Times of Darcus Howe by Robin Bunce
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $8.54Explore 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... -
East of Acre Lane by Alex Wheatle
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84'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... -
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89Preface 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... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain Jason Okundaye 9780571372225
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A 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 New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.86"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... -
Jackpot by Nic Stone 9781471186905
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95Nic Stone, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, creates two unforgettable characters in one hard-hitting story about class, money - both too little and too much - and how you make... -
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head by Alex Wheatle 9781529428452
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95"One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly gifted... -
Chaos Theory: The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of Dear Martin by Nic Stone
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin delivers a gripping romance about two teens: a certified genius living with a diagnosed mental illness and a politician's son who is running... -
Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories by Barbara Jenkins 9781845232146
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95The stories in Sic Transit Wagon bring together a rich, evocative and authentic tapestry of Trinidad life, from the 1940s to the present day. We move from the all-seeing naivety of a child narrator... -
Kemosha of the Caribbean by Alex Wheatle 9781839131219 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.10Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing 'A vivid and powerful story ... Another tour de force by Alex Wheatle, a truly gifted storyteller' David Olusoga Kemosha and her brother have lived... -
Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle 9781839131127 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $2.57Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book AwardWinner of the Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Diverse Book Award and Iris AwardLonglisted for the... -
Sounding Ground by Vladimir Lucien 9781845232399
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts. His poetry is intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method. You can see a young man building his house of poetry, just as his... -
Everyone Knows I am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Shivanee Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they... -
De Rightest Place by Barbara Jenkins 9781845234225
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, Solomon, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a dilapidated bar into something special. In this funny, sexy, sometimes painful and bittersweet novel,... -
The Merchant of Feathers by Tanya Shirley 9781845232337
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95This second collection of poems confirms why Tanya Shirley is so much in demand for readings. The stories she tells have their finger on the pulse of contemporary Jamaica in all its exuberance and... -
Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid Joy White 9781914420092
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35How Black music and culture shaped our experiences during the first 18 months of COVID-19. As lockdowns restricted movement and social interactions, music became a vital tool for countering the... -
Caribbean Art by Veerle Poupeye
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.36A new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period of colonialism to the present day. Caribbean Art... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years,... -
Uprising: A True Story by Alex Wheatle 9781908713100
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95This is the gritty but inspiring true story of the award-winning author Alex Wheatle. Alex had a tough start in life. He was abandoned by his family as a young child and grew up in a care home... -
Brenton Brown by Alex Wheatle 9781529429329
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"A rich layering of motive and emotion . . . robust dialogue, streetwise humour and muscular, mischievous vernaculour" IndependentSet on the streets of Brixton, south London, BRENTON BROWN is a fatal... -
A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out Shenequa Golding 9781472297747
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Growing up in Queens, I didn't know being named Shenequa was considered "ghetto" or uncouth. It was only later in life that I realized I was being judged by a decision I had no control over... I... -
The Stranger Who Was Myself by Barbara Jenkins 9781845235345
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Barbara Jenkins writes about the experiences of a personal and family-centred life in Trinidad with great psychological acuteness, expanding on the personal with a deep awareness of the economic,... -
The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle 9781846686573
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Brixton, twenty years after the race riots. Teenager Dennis Huggins drifts into the easy, dangerous life of the shotta - or drug dealer - and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the... -
Education, Affect, and Film: Visual Imaginings and Global Explorations Through a Comparative Lens Irving Epstein 9781350332546
Booksplease Price: $39.40What can a study of international film contribute to our understanding of education in a globalized context? How can such an exploration further push the boundaries of comparative and international... -
There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts by Don Letts
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Don Letts - filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father - has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London's... -
Cosmogramma: and other stories by Courttia Newland
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.63In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.Robots used as human proxies in a war...