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Open City by Teju Cole
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald.A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young... -
Blind Spot by Teju Cole
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.41The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm,... -
Tremor by Teju Cole 9780571377909
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.76Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and... -
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. The country of his childhood has changed: it has found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority and the all-consuming... -
Open City by Teju Cole 9780812980097
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN New England/Hemingway Foundation Award 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780812980097Author Teju ColeFormat... -
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open... -
Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole 9780812987010
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812987010Author Teju ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Trade... -
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812989786Author Teju ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade... -
Tremor: 'Dazzling.' Deborah Levy Teju Cole 9780571283361
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity-and witness... -
Every Day Is for the Thief: Fiction by Teju Cole 9780812985856
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812985856Author Teju ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House Trade... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole 9780226641355
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.40"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. Cole is... -
Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.72A New York Times Book of the YearChosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier 9781526634795
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.12A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Walking New York: Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole by Stephen H. Miller 9780823263158
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £62.75THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many... -
Walking New York: Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole by Stephen H. Miller 9780823274253
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many... -
African Migration Narratives - Politics, Race, and Space by Cajetan Iheka
Booksplease Price: £109.33Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on... -
To Walk Alone in the Crowd by Antonio Munoz Molina
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a... -
Barley Patch Gerald Murnane 9781916751149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the... -
To Walk Alone in the Crowd Antonio Munoz Molina 9781788161954
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a... -
How to Be a Revolutionary: A Novel by C.A. Davids
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs... -
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Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo 9780571268955 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.27Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2018Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity.They are unlikely allies -- a private, a housewife, an officer, a militant and a young... -
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2018Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity.They are unlikely allies -- a private, a housewife, an officer, a militant and a young... -
Pan-African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century by Stephanie Li 9780813592770
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.402019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African... -
Allegro Pastel Leif Randt 9781738536221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tanja and Jerome are navigating a long-distance relationship in a world of constant communication and emotional hyper-reflection. Whether they're texting one another trip updates from midday raves or... -
The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic by Nick Joaquin
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained little-known outside his home country despite writing in English. With the post-colonial sensibilities of... -
Pan-African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century by Stephanie Li
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.152019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African... -
Foreign Soil Maxine Beneba Clarke 9781472151476
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER- Indie Book Awards 2015 (Best Debut Fiction Book)WINNER- The ABIA Award (Literary Fiction Book of the Year) 2015WINNER- Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists of 2015WINNER-... -
Absence Issa Quincy 9781803512266
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they... -
Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image Dinah Lenney 9781350397057
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.48If pictures are worth a thousand words, what kinds of words might they inspire? What stories would they tell and would they be joyful or sad, elegant or savage?Snapshots features 36 such meditations... -
Tamarisk Row by Gerald Murnane 9781911508366
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.93Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing... -
West of West: Travels along the edge of America by Sarah Lee
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.51Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front, and the family setting up camp on the soft, warm... -
A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S... -
The Invisible Land by Hubert Mingarelli
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Dinslaken, Germany 1945. The war is over, leaving behind a broken nation. As the allied forces begin to uncover the horrors of the Holocaust, a war photographer makes the decision to capture the... -
Security and Terror: American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity by Eli Jelly-Schapiro 9780520295377
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror... -
Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa by Pier Paolo Frassinelli 9780367785666
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa.Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation... -
Security and Terror: American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity by Eli Jelly-Schapiro 9780520295384
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.09When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror... -
Inland Gerald Murnane 9781913505820
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination - from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the... -
At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English by Rebecca Jones 9781847013354
Booksplease Price: £27.80Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel...