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Black, Asian and Middle Eastern Biography and Autobiography - Recently published biographies. (To keep this list from getting too long, we remove older titles from it every so often - but you'll still find them in other booklists according to their subject)

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Related booklists: Black British Women, Black American Women, Black, Asian and Middle East Art and Artists, Biography and Autobiography, Women's Biography and Autobiography, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Asian Women, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black Women, LGBTQ+ Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority People, Black and Asian Lives: Books for Children and Young Adults, Paul Robeson,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 221 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Just Sayin
    Just Sayin': My Life In Words - by Malorie Blackman

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529118698 | ISBN 10: 1529118697

    'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph  Malorie Blackman is one of Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge
    Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter - by Gary Younge

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571376827 | ISBN 10: 0571376827

    BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023  A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices.  ‘An outstanding journalist and chronicler.’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Departure & Return: One Family, Two Countries and a World of Connections by Denis Wong
    Departure & Return: One Family, Two Countries and a World of Connections - by Denis Wong

    £16.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781801000031 | ISBN 10: 1801000034

    “A deeply engaging and elegantly told story of two-way passages between China and Britain” ~ Gregor Benton, Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at Cardiff University   Who am I? This question is often asked in youth, as a part of “coming o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa
    Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China - by Noo Saro-Wiwa

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838856946 | ISBN 10: 1838856943

    The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People’s Republic.  China today is a land of opportunity for African ... more

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  • Cover image of book CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams
    CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries - by John L Williams

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472130129 | ISBN 10: 147213012x

    Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by L ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong by Claire Ratinon
    Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong - by Claire Ratinon

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114867 | ISBN 10: 1529114861

    'A beautiful book about nature... I recommend it' Afua Hirsch   A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world. Unearthed is the story of how, after years of a troubled rel ... more

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  • Cover image of book M(other)land: What I
    M(other)land: What I've Learnt about Parenthood, Race and Identity - by Priya Joi

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241574317 | ISBN 10: 0241574315

    'This is the kind of book I wish I had access to as a young mum' Nadiya Hussain   What does it mean to be a parent in a space where you are the minority?   Meandering through a supermarket highway of camembert and baguettes, Priya Joi ... more

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  • Cover image of book China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
    China in Ten Words - by Yu Hua

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780715654903 | ISBN 10: 071565490x

    A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words.   People. Leader. Reading. Writing. Revolution. Grassroots. Through these and other common vernacular words and phrases, Yu Hua – widely regarded as one of China’s grea ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Are You Doing Here? My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin
    What Are You Doing Here? My Autobiography - by Floella Benjamin

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529071061 | ISBN 10: 1529071062

    Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards   Baroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children’s television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blackgirl on Mars by Lesley-Ann Brown
    Blackgirl on Mars - by Lesley-Ann Brown

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914420283 | ISBN 10: 1914420284

    Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown’s two years’ worth of travel searching for “home”.  “Lesley-Ann Brown has a brave voice and a keen eye, offering an unflinching vie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rising to the Surface by Lenny Henry
    Rising to the Surface - by Lenny Henry

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571368792 | ISBN 10: 0571368794

    The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.  ‘Moving and ebullient’ Daily Telegraph ‘Relayed with characteristic exuberance and self-deprecation’ Guardian  Rising to the Surface tra ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen Rappaport
    In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon - by Helen Rappaport

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398504455 | ISBN 10: 1398504459

    'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily Mail  In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing bio ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
    An Autobiography - by Angela Y. Davis

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241994573 | ISBN 10: 0241994578

    A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis.  Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully toda ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
    Time Come: Selected Prose - by Linton Kwesi Johnson

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781035006328 | ISBN 10: 1035006324

    'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times 'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith 'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces' - Kit de Waal   Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respect ... more

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  • Cover image of book Different Voices Shared Lives: A Collection of New Writing from Voices Across Liverpool City Region by Various authors
    Different Voices Shared Lives: A Collection of New Writing from Voices Across Liverpool City Region - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580851 | ISBN 10: 1910580856

    Different Voices Shared Lives is a unique collection of writing by members of black, Asian and other racial minority communities from across the Liverpool City Region which offers new insights into the region’s culture and heritage. This book bring ... more

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  • Cover image of book Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
    Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora - by Sarah Ladipo Manyika

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781804440087 | ISBN 10: 1804440086

    ‘A must read...!!!’ will.i.am  ‘Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace’ David Olusoga  WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO  Conversations with some of the most extraordinary ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte
    The Assassination of Lumumba - by Ludo De Witte

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839767906 | ISBN 10: 1839767901

    Re-issue of a classic investigation into the CIA and Belgian state plot in the Congo. The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X & James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
    Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X & James Baldwin Shaped a Nation - by Anna Malaika Tubbs

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008405359 | ISBN 10: 0008405352

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  ‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history... Eye-opening, engrossing’ Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half   In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport by Samson Kambalu
    The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport - by Samson Kambalu

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914613180 | ISBN 10: 191461318x

    A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi, by the award-winning conceptual artist. A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry ... more

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  • Cover image of book East Side Voices: Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain by Helena Lee (Editor)
    East Side Voices: Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain - by Helena Lee (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529344509 | ISBN 10: 1529344506

    In this bold, first-of-its kind collection, East Side Voices invites us to explore a dazzling spectrum of experience from the East and Southeast Asian diaspora living in Britain today.   Showcasing original essays and poetry from well-known celeb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maybe I Don
    Maybe I Don't Belong Here : A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery - by David Harewood

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529064179 | ISBN 10: 1529064171

    'As a Black British man I believe it is vital that I tell this story. It may be just one account from the perspective of a person of colour who has experienced this system, but it may be enough to potentially change an opinion or, more importantly, s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
    Manifesto: On Never Giving Up - by Bernardine Evaristo

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993620 | ISBN 10: 0241993628

    The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo.  In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy
    Black Teacher - by Beryl Gilroy

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366989 | ISBN 10: 0571366988

    The rediscovered classic: a trailblazing Guyanese woman's memoir of post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion')  Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Haramacy: A collection of stories prescribed by voices from the Middle East, South Asia... by Dhruva Balram, Tara Joshi and Zahed Sultan (Editors)
    Haramacy: A collection of stories prescribed by voices from the Middle East, South Asia... - by Dhruva Balram, Tara Joshi and Zahed Sultan (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181328 | ISBN 10: 1800181329

    'A beautiful love letter to the diaspora, Haramacy is an essential collection of essays that push the conversation forward on issues to do with visibility, mental health, race and class' Nikesh Shukla   'A superbly crafted collection of essays. Of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
    Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir - by Akwaeke Emezi

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366163 | ISBN 10: 0571366163

    A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.   ‘Unlike anything I’ve read... Remarkable.’ Roxane Gay   ‘An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
    Letters to Gil - by Malik Al Nasir

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008464479 | ISBN 10: 0008464472

    "A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure"(Irenosen Okojie) Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir's profound coming of age memoir - the story of surviving physical and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips
    Why Solange Matters - by Stephanie Phillips

    £9.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571368983 | ISBN 10: 0571368980

    The dramatic story of a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name.   A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, CLASH BOOK OF THE YEAR  The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4 by Tez Ilyas
    The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4 - by Tez Ilyas

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780751582192 | ISBN 10: 0751582190

    The incredible Sunday Times bestseller.  ‘Essential...A complex blend of overexcited Adrian Mole-like anecdotes mixed with shocking moments of racism and insights into Muslim religious practices’ Sunday Times  ‘Authentic, fu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Lexi Stadlen
    Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village - by Lexi Stadlen

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784744106 | ISBN 10: 1784744107

    On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and rivers, the women here dwell among contradictions, constrictions and change in a place where one's nei ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life In The Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family by Nabil Ayers
    My Life In The Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family - by Nabil Ayers

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593295960 | ISBN 10: 059329596x

    “Nabil traces the image of his father through song. With growing fascination and heartbreak, he draws out meaning from the shadow of absence, and ultimately redefines what it means to be a family.” - Michelle Zauner, New York Times bestselling au ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City
    The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice - by Scott Ellsworth

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785788604 | ISBN 10: 1785788604

    ** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **   'Fast-paced but nuanced... impeccably researched... a much-needed book' The Guardian   ''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you a ... more

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  • Cover image of book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man
    His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice - by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787635838 | ISBN 10: 178763583x

    'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist  'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES  You know how he died. This is how ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home by Nikesh Shukla
    Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home - by Nikesh Shukla

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529033373 | ISBN 10: 1529033373

    How do you find hope and even joy in a world that is racist, sexist and facing climate crisis? How do you prepare your children for it, but also fill them with all the boundlessness and eccentricity that they deserve and that life has to offer?  ... more

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  • Cover image of book All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir of Adoption by Nicole Chung
    All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir of Adoption - by Nicole Chung

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911590309 | ISBN 10: 1911590308

    What does it mean to lose your roots within your culture, within your family? And what happens when you find them?   Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a shel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal
    Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman - by Sharan Dhaliwal

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784884390 | ISBN 10: 1784884391

    Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women.  With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colourism and mental health, and a particular focus on the suffocating b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
    Crying in H Mart - by Michelle Zauner

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529033793 | ISBN 10: 1529033799

    One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021  Goodreads Choice Awards 2021: Winner, Memoir & Autobiography  The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir abou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s by Barbara Blake Hannah
    Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s - by Barbara Blake Hannah

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993767 | ISBN 10: 0241993768

    "A gorgeously exuberant account... writing that is natural and vivacious... a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read."(Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction) Travelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She find ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
    Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity - by Nadia Owusu

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529342895 | ISBN 10: 1529342899

    *** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S ‘BEST BOOKS OF 2021’ ***  I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.  When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her ... more

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  • Cover image of book 100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne
    100 Great Black Britons - by Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472147042 | ISBN 10: 1472147049

    A long-overdue book honouring the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over many centuries, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE.   Patrick Vernon's landmark 100 G ... more

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  • Cover image of book Are You This? Or Are You This? A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, with Ellen Georgiou
    Are You This? Or Are You This? A Story of Identity and Worth - by Madian Al Jazerah, with Ellen Georgiou

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787384651 | ISBN 10: 1787384659

    A gay man’s memoir of hardship, courage, community and kin in the Arab world and beyond.   When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. ‘Are you this?’ she asked, cupping her hand. ‘Or are you thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
    Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement - by Tarana Burke

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472292315 | ISBN 10: 1472292316

    From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she broug ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prosecutor by Nazir Afzal
    The Prosecutor - by Nazir Afzal

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529105025 | ISBN 10: 1529105021

    The outsider who transformed our justice system.   Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure the most complex, violent and harrowing crimes made it to court, and that their perpetrators ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
    The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241503041 | ISBN 10: 0241503043

    **WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award Finalist, LA Times Book Prize  A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
    Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture - by Sudhir Hazareesingh

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141985060 | ISBN 10: 0141985062

    The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture.  The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culmina ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez
    Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts - by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241523551 | ISBN 10: 0241523559

    "Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery"(Angela Y. Davis) Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the pas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere
    Cack-Handed: A Memoir - by Gina Yashere

    £16.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008486976 | ISBN 10: 0008486972

    The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.  According to fami ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coconut by Florence Olajide
    Coconut - by Florence Olajide

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781909770652 | ISBN 10: 1909770655

    'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?'   A generation of Nigerian children were ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
    Who Am I, Again? - by Lenny Henry

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571342617 | ISBN 10: 0571342612

    ***BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week***   Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.  You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Renegade: Darcus Howe and the Fight for Civil Rights by Robin Bunce and Paul Field
    Renegade: Darcus Howe and the Fight for Civil Rights - by Robin Bunce and Paul Field

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781448218080 | ISBN 10: 144821808x

    Renegade examines the struggle for racial justice in the UK, through the lens of one of Britain's most influential, and controversial, journalists and campaigners.  Born in Trinidad during the dying days of colonialism, Howe became an uncompromis ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies by Sathnam Sanghera
    The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141028590 | ISBN 10: 0141028599

    "It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for exec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Firsts: 4,500 Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events by Dr. Jessie Carney Smith
    Black Firsts: 4,500 Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events - by Dr. Jessie Carney Smith

    £26.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781578596881 | ISBN 10: 1578596882

    Achievement, pride, and accomplishments. Change, progress, and pioneers.   Hard-won victories. Barrier-breaking triumphs. Society-changing feats. Inspirational people. Remarkable people, places, and events in black history are gathered in Black Fi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang
    The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - by Wesley Yang

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780393357554 | ISBN 10: 0393357554

    Named a notable book of the year by the New York Times and the Washington Post, and one of the best books of the year by the Spectator and Publishers Weekly, The Souls of Yellow Folk is a powerful debut from one of the most acclaimed essayists of his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Becoming by Michelle Obama
    Becoming - by Michelle Obama

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241982976 | ISBN 10: 0241982979

    Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, an intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First La ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
    Bessie Smith - by Jackie Kay

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571362929 | ISBN 10: 0571362923

    Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.  Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.   Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother
    Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine - by Emily Bernard

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857527851 | ISBN 10: 0857527851

    "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. Race is the story of my life, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society by David Lammy
    Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society - by David Lammy

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472128720 | ISBN 10: 1472128729

    David was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as a barrister before entering politics. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000.   Today, David is one of Parliament's most prominent and su ... more

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  • Cover image of book Distant Sunflower Fields by Li Juan
    Distant Sunflower Fields - by Li Juan

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838905064 | ISBN 10: 1838905065

    ‘The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake, but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow’   An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: thes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
    The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History - by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

    £16.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781984857705 | ISBN 10: 1984857703

    A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.  Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole
    Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly - by Peter Cole

    £16.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629638324 | ISBN 10: 1629638323

    In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
    Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation - by Colin Grant

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784709136 | ISBN 10: 1784709131

    When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. ‘We’re here because we’re here,’ his father would say. ‘You have some place else to go?’  But now, se ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman
    The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment - by Amelia Gentleman

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783351855 | ISBN 10: 1783351853

    ***LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019***  How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years?  Amelia Gentleman's expose of the Windrush scandal shocked th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
    The Cancer Journals - by Audre Lorde

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241453506 | ISBN 10: 024145350x

    "A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer"(Jackie Kay, New Statesman) The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Name Is Why: A Memoir by Lemn Sissay
    My Name Is Why: A Memoir - by Lemn Sissay

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786892362 | ISBN 10: 1786892367

    How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how.  At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth c ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Promised Land by Barack Obama
    A Promised Land - by Barack Obama

    £35.00   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241491515 | ISBN 10: 0241491517

    A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography by Robin Bunce and Samara Linton
    Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography - by Robin Bunce and Samara Linton

    £20.00   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785906039 | ISBN 10: 1785906038

    More than three decades after her election to Parliament, Diane Abbott is still racking up firsts. The first black woman elected to Parliament, she also recently became the first black person to represent their party at PMQs. Abbott came to fame in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change by Magid Magid
    The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change - by Magid Magid

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788702904 | ISBN 10: 1788702905

    A guide to being courageous and community-minded, and to disrupting and dismantling age-old power structures in work, life and politics, written by someone who has done exactly that.  Let's be honest. Magid Magid's story seems an unlikely one.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
    How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir - by Saeed Jones

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781501132742 | ISBN 10: 1501132741

    Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.   Through a series of vignettes, Jones draws reade ... more

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  • Cover image of book Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
    Afropean: Notes from Black Europe - by Johny Pitts

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141987286 | ISBN 10: 0141987286

    A Guardian Best Book of 2019 so far.  'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope by Albert Woodfox
    Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope - by Albert Woodfox

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911231271 | ISBN 10: 1911231278

    Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement — in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana — all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi
    Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen - by Amrou Al-Kadhi

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008306069 | ISBN 10: 0008306060

    A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s journey from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a proud, queer drag queen.   My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi – by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, confident and acerbic drag queen who wears ... more

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  • Cover image of book Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being by Romesh Ranganathan
    Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being - by Romesh Ranganathan

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780552173704 | ISBN 10: 0552173703

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER   Straight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan.  At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday camp talent c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Different Class: Fashion, Football & Funk - The Story of Laurie Cunningham by Dermot Kavanagh
    Different Class: Fashion, Football & Funk - The Story of Laurie Cunningham - by Dermot Kavanagh

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527373 | ISBN 10: 1783527374

    A biography of England's first professional black footballer, who represented Leyton Orient, West Bromwich Albion and became the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid.  Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the British Sports Book Award ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown
    The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me - by Keah Brown

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781982100544 | ISBN 10: 1982100540

    From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.  Keah Brown ... more

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  • Cover image of book Greetings from Bury Park by Sarfraz Manzoor
    Greetings from Bury Park - by Sarfraz Manzoor

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526612083 | ISBN 10: 1526612089

    A charming and poignant memoir of growing up during the eighties as both a Pakistani Muslim and Bruce Springsteen fan.  Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when his family emigrated from Pakistan to join his father in Bury Park, Luton. His teenage ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Times of a Very British Man by Kamal Ahmed
    The Life and Times of a Very British Man - by Kamal Ahmed

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408889244 | ISBN 10: 1408889242

    Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very 'British' in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday by Paolo Parisi
    Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday - by Paolo Parisi

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781642730210 | ISBN 10: 1642730211

    Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney
    The Groundings with My Brothers - by Walter Rodney

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788731157 | ISBN 10: 1788731158

    A remarkable book on the international operations of racism and the global meaning of Black Power.  In this classic work published in the heady days of anti-colonial revolution, Groundings with My Brothers follows the global circulation of em ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is Us: Black British Women and Girls by Kafayat Okanlawon
    This is Us: Black British Women and Girls - by Kafayat Okanlawon

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781999894122 | ISBN 10: 199989412x

    This is Us captures a lifetime of lived experiences from Black British women, retelling their stories of challenges and hardships, triumphs and strengths. Collected by Kafayat Okanlawon from strangers, acquaintances, friends and family, the book ties ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography by Benjamin Zephaniah
    The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography - by Benjamin Zephaniah

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781471168956 | ISBN 10: 1471168956

    *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*  Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life.   In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele
    When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786893055 | ISBN 10: 1786893053

    “Twelve. That was the year that I learned that being Black and poor defined me more than being bright and hopeful and ready.”   The powerful memoir of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter which explores how the movement was born.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
    The Girl Who Smiled Beads - by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503

    When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon by Anthony Joseph
    Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon - by Anthony Joseph

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781845234195 | ISBN 10: 1845234197

    Combining factual biography with the imaginative structure and investment in the language of the novel, Anthony Joseph fully engages with the world he recreates, and by presenting a multifaceted view from Kitch’s friends, rivals and even enemies, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
    Zami: A New Spelling of my Name - by Audre Lorde

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241351086 | ISBN 10: 0241351081

    If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.   A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miles And Me by Quincy Troupe
    Miles And Me - by Quincy Troupe

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781609808341 | ISBN 10: 1609808347

    Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an engrossing chronicle of the author's own artistic and personal growth. Miles and Me describes in intima ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Colour Of Madness Anthology: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK by Samara Linton and Rianna Walcott (Editors)
    The Colour Of Madness Anthology: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK - by Samara Linton and Rianna Walcott (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780992651442 | ISBN 10: 0992651441

    The Colour of Madness is a seminal anthology, comprised of poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs and art submitted by Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) writers, academics, mental health workers, artists and those who are still navigating life with me ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grace Jones A to Z: The life of an icon – from Androgyny to Zula by Babeth Lafon and Steve Wide
    Grace Jones A to Z: The life of an icon – from Androgyny to Zula - by Babeth Lafon and Steve Wide

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781925418804 | ISBN 10: 1925418804

    Singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, actress and iconoclast, Grace Jones is truly one of a kind, equal parts intriguing, intimidating and indefatigable.   From her early days as a model working with Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, her ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
    No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson - by Jeff Sparrow

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206

    Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.   Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir - by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702243 | ISBN 10: 1784702242

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a ... more

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  • Cover image of book These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi
    These Bones Will Rise Again - by Panashe Chigumadzi

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683306 | ISBN 10: 1999683307

    A leading writer of Zimbabwe’s ‘born-free’ generation reflects on the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, radically reframing the history of Zimbabwe to include the perspectives of workers, women and urban movements   In November 20 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa
    Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years - by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509809615 | ISBN 10: 1509809619

    "I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mandela: His Essential Life by Peter Hain
    Mandela: His Essential Life - by Peter Hain

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786607584 | ISBN 10: 1786607581

    Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939-1948 by Stephen Bourne
    War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939-1948 - by Stephen Bourne

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909762855 | ISBN 10: 1909762857

    From the author of Black Poppies, Fighting Proud and Evelyn Dove comes a timely new account exploring Britain’s diverse history from the Second World War to the Empire Windrush and beyond, told through the experiences of black British women.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall
    Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands - by Stuart Hall

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141984759 | ISBN 10: 0141984759

    'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'   This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the leading intellectual lights of his age. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Jamaica ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King and Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds
    Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy - by Coretta Scott King and Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473671003 | ISBN 10: 1473671000

    The life story of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist. "Coretta is more relevant today than ever... a female who takes responsibility for creating something bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book
    'I Was Transformed': Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain - by Laurence Fenton

    £20.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781445670195 | ISBN 10: 1445670194

    In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, arrived in Liverpool for the start of a near-two-year tour of Brita ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir by Anand Prahlad
    The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir - by Anand Prahlad

    £16.50   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781602233218 | ISBN 10: 1602233217

    Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyrical, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story.   For the first four years of his life, Prahlad didn’t speak. But his silenc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
    Notes of a Native Son - by James Baldwin

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241334003 | ISBN 10: 0241334004

    'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'   James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher fath ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
    Red Dust Road - by Jackie Kay

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509858392 | ISBN 10: 1509858393

    'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'  From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing ... more

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  • Cover image of book C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary by Paul Buhle
    C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary - by Paul Buhle

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786634535 | ISBN 10: 1786634538

    C. L. R. James was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar who was active in US and UK radical movements; ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
    Something Dark - by Lemn Sissay

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786822291 | ISBN 10: 1786822296

    Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mandela: The Graphic Novel by Umlando Wezithombe
    Mandela: The Graphic Novel - by Umlando Wezithombe

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472139870 | ISBN 10: 1472139879

    A vivid account of Nelson Mandela's extraordinary life in the form of a full-colour graphic novel.   Freedom fighter, fugitive, celebrated prisoner, president: the hero of a nation. Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, forced into hiding, ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely
    Frederick Douglass - by William S. McFeely

    £15.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780393354423 | ISBN 10: 0393354423

    Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass — orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America — was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Do ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century by Theodor Michael, translated by Eve Rosenhaft
    Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century - by Theodor Michael, translated by Eve Rosenhaft

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781383117 | ISBN 10: 1781383111

    This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael.   Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram by Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann
    A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram - by Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann

    £13.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408708958 | ISBN 10: 1408708957

    A Gift from Darkness is the harrowing yet inspirational story of a young, pregnant Nigerian girl and the hell she endured for the sake of her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.  When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feare ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Editor)
    The Good Immigrant - by Nikesh Shukla (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783523955 | ISBN 10: 1783523956

    How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?   Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your nativ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wake Up and Live: The Life of Bob Marley by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego
    Wake Up and Live: The Life of Bob Marley - by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783059676 | ISBN 10: 1783059672

    The extraordinary life of the legendary Jamaican musician Bob Marley is here celebrated in a superb graphic novel by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego.  A man of spiritual hunger and force with music in his bones, Robert Nesta Marley came to re ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
    Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin - by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781909762572 | ISBN 10: 1909762571

    On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin’s name w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
    Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race - by Margot Lee Shetterly

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008201326 | ISBN 10: 0008201323

    The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller  Now a major motion picture. Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.  Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathemati ... more

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  • Cover image of book Muhammad Ali by Sybille Titeux and Amazing Ameziane
    Muhammad Ali - by Sybille Titeux and Amazing Ameziane

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781506703183 | ISBN 10: 1506703186

    The story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali!   An original graphic novel celebrating the life of the glorious athlete who metamorphosed from Cassius Clay to become a three-time heavyweight boxing legend, activist, and provocateur: Muhammad Ali. Not ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer - by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846559891 | ISBN 10: 1846559898

    As a young student, internationally renowned author Ngugi wa Thiong’o found his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, writing his first, pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa were in the final throes of their independence str ... more

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  • Cover image of book Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
    Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation - by Susan Williams

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141985701 | ISBN 10: 0141985704

    The true story of a love which defied family, Apartheid, and empire - the inspiration for the major new feature film A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike.   London, 1947. He was the heir to an African kingdom. She was a white ... more

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  • Cover image of book 61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC
    61 Minutes in Munich: The Story of Liverpool FC's First Black Footballer - by Howard Gayle

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909245396 | ISBN 10: 1909245399

    In April 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench and sent on to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German champions Bayern Munich.   The previous October, by filling the same role at Manc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer by Kristina DuRocher
    Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer - by Kristina DuRocher

    £24.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138786882 | ISBN 10: 1138786888

    Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope: My Life in Football by Hope Powell
    Hope: My Life in Football - by Hope Powell

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472925565 | ISBN 10: 1472925564

    Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a ki ... more

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  • Cover image of book W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line by Bill V. Mullen
    W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line - by Bill V. Mullen

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335056 | ISBN 10: 0745335055

    On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, "I Have a Dream", the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
    Negroland: A Memoir - by Margo Jefferson

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783783021 | ISBN 10: 1783783028

    The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar by Reinhard Kleist
    An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar - by Reinhard Kleist

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593097 | ISBN 10: 1910593095

    The remarkable story of Somali Olympian Samia Yusuf Omar.   In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Eur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
    Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS - by Martin Duberman

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971925 | ISBN 10: 1620971925

    The Lambda Literary Awardwinning biography of two men fighting for their lives in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, from the celebrated historian. "A meticulously researched, nuanced, empathic and insightful portrait of two important artistic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Billie Holiday by John Szwed
    Billie Holiday - by John Szwed

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592624 | ISBN 10: 0099592622

    When eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record Riffin the Scotch and Your Mothers Son-in-Law, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir - by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784785345 | ISBN 10: 1784785342

    The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by Toni Morrison as required reading. This small a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary by Gerald Horne
    Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary - by Gerald Horne

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335322 | ISBN 10: 0745335322

    A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling ... more

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  • Cover image of book Becoming Richard Pryor by Scott Saul
    Becoming Richard Pryor - by Scott Saul

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780062123329 | ISBN 10: 0062123327

    A major biography intimate, gripping, revelatory of an artist who revolutionized American comedy. Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his familys brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. H ... more

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  • Cover image of book Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban
    Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art - by Phoebe Hoban

    £15.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780704374041 | ISBN 10: 0704374048

    Jean-Michel Basquiat grew up as the son of an accountant and spent his youth as a graffiti artist. Before he knew it, the young Basquiat had been catapulted to the heights of fame because of his blackness, good looks and lack of formal art training, ... more

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  • Cover image of book I
    I'll Never Write My Memoirs - by Grace Jones

    £20.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471135217 | ISBN 10: 1471135217

    Born in 1948 into a family of ministers in Kingston, Jamaica, the statuesque and strikingly beautiful Grace Jones lived with her family in Syracuse, NY, before launching a career as a model in New York City. Gaining fame as the cover girl for such pu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War by Ray Costello
    Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War - by Ray Costello

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781380192 | ISBN 10: 1781380198

    Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family
    My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past - by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473616257 | ISBN 10: 1473616255

    An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.   When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cugoano Against Slavery by Martin Hoyles
    Cugoano Against Slavery - by Martin Hoyles

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781906190972 | ISBN 10: 1906190976

    Out of the three leading black figures in eighteenth-century England (Sancho, Equiano and Cugoano), Ottobah Cugoano is the least well known. Yet he was the most radical, campaigning not just against the slave trade but for a total abolition of slave ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Your Average Muslim by Zia Chaudhry
    Just Your Average Muslim - by Zia Chaudhry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780722481 | ISBN 10: 1780722486

    This fascinating and original book provides a better insight into the life of "just your average Muslim" than you will find anywhere else.  A powerful antidote to common but exhausted stereotypes, it challenges non-Muslims to reexamine their per ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
    The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - by Jeanne Theoharis

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780807033326 | ISBN 10: 0807033324

    The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.   This revised edition includes a new introduction by the author, who reflec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology by Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon (Editors)
    Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology - by Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780956971968 | ISBN 10: 0956971962

    A ground-breaking, provocative and diverse anthology of writing about black gay men's lives in the UK - essays, activist memoirs, (auto)biographies, poems and fiction, edited by multi-award-winning writers Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon.  Cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twin Ambitions: My Autobiography by Mo Farah
    Twin Ambitions: My Autobiography - by Mo Farah

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444779585 | ISBN 10: 1444779583

    A powerful and gripping human story of the 2012 London Olympics hero  4 August, 2012. Super Saturday. On the most electric night in the history of British sport, Mo Farah braved the pain and punishment to seize Olympic gold in the 10,000m - and ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
    My Bondage and My Freedom - by Frederick Douglass

    £12.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300190595 | ISBN 10: 030019059x

    Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nations enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War ... more

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  • Cover image of book Starting at Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix
    Starting at Zero: His Own Story - by Jimi Hendrix

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408842157 | ISBN 10: 1408842157

    It didn't take long after Jimi Hendrix's death for the artist to become a myth of music. He has been surrounded by a shroud of intrigue since he first came into the public eye, and the mystery has only grown with time. Much has been written and said ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
    Gandhi Before India - by Ramachandra Guha

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141044217 | ISBN 10: 0141044217

    The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra Guha.   The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern e ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Passion for Freedom: My Life by Mamphela Ramphele
    A Passion for Freedom: My Life - by Mamphela Ramphele

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784530426 | ISBN 10: 1784530425

    Mamphela Ramphele is a figurehead of modern South Africa. The partner of Steve Biko, until his death in 1977, she has demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and statesmanship, most recently as the leader of the Agang SA party.   In t ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Parallel Life by Bonnie Greer
    A Parallel Life - by Bonnie Greer

    £14.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909807624 | ISBN 10: 1909807621

    Standing on the corner of Michigan Avenue, in the middle of the biggest blizzard of the decade and at the height of the rush hour, I yelled into the driving snow and howling Arctic wind: OK! After playing the role of good daughter, great sister, best ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
    Mom and Me and Mom - by Maya Angelou

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844089154 | ISBN 10: 1844089150

    For the first time, Maya Angelou - one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets - shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother.  'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa
    Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent - by Adekeye Adebajo

    £15.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329437 | ISBN 10: 1780329431

    As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950.   From t ... more

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  • Cover image of book There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
    There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra - by Chinua Achebe

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241959206 | ISBN 10: 0241959209

    Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country is his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Call Mr. Robeson by Tayo Aluko
    Call Mr. Robeson - by Tayo Aluko

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780957679252 | ISBN 10: 0957679254

    They say I'm meddling in the foreign affairs of the United States Government. Now, that's too bad, 'cause I'm going to have to continue to meddle...   Paul Robeson is a world famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the yea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paul Robeson: A Watched Man by Jordan Goodman
    Paul Robeson: A Watched Man - by Jordan Goodman

    £20.00   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681312 | ISBN 10: 1781681317

    In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African-American singer was the voice of the people, both as a performer and as a polit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Biko: A Life by Xolela Mangcu, with a Foreword by Nelson Mandela
    Biko: A Life - by Xolela Mangcu, with a Foreword by Nelson Mandela

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780767857 | ISBN 10: 1780767854

    Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organisation which would mobilise a lar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus by Peggy and Murray Schwartz
    The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus - by Peggy and Murray Schwartz

    £19.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300187939 | ISBN 10: 0300187939

    Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
    Twelve Years a Slave - by Solomon Northup

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780143106708 | ISBN 10: 0143106708

    Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life ... more

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  • Cover image of book From The Bottom Of The Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King by Robert Hillary King
    From The Bottom Of The Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King - by Robert Hillary King

    £17.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604865752 | ISBN 10: 160486575x

    Winner of the 2008 PASS Award (Prevention for a Safer Society) from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.  In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance by Harry Belafonte and Michael Schnayerson
    My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance - by Harry Belafonte and Michael Schnayerson

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857865861 | ISBN 10: 0857865862

    Written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Schnayerson, My Song is an inspiring story of performance and protest, from a superstar singer and actor who was on the front lines of practically every progressive political battle in modern memor ... more

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  • Cover image of book I & I: The Natural Mystics by Colin Grant
    I & I: The Natural Mystics - by Colin Grant

    £11.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099526728 | ISBN 10: 0099526727

    The history of the original Wailers - Tosh, Livingstone and Marley - as never before told Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trench Town R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-ton ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of a Black Englishman (Paul Stephenson OBE) by Paul Stephenson
    Memoirs of a Black Englishman (Paul Stephenson OBE) - by Paul Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906477394 | ISBN 10: 1906477396

    Paul Stephenson OBE is one of the leading black civil rights activists of his generation. It was in Bristol in 1963 that Paul and the black community took on the Bristol Omnibus Company that was refusing to employ black workers. The Bristol Bus Boyco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Eddie Conway
    Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther - by Eddie Conway

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849350228 | ISBN 10: 1849350221

    In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison, took him away from his family, his friends, and his organizing, and tried to relegate him to a life marked by noth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
    Mandela: The Authorised Biography - by Anthony Sampson

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007437979 | ISBN 10: 0007437978

    Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampsons remarkable book has now been updated by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.  Over a decade after his presidency of South Africa, Nels ... more

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  • Cover image of book Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography by Gok Wan
    Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography - by Gok Wan

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780091938383 | ISBN 10: 0091938384

    With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but its not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from.   Gok g ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330533447 | ISBN 10: 0330533444

    The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever... Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
    Conversations with Myself - by Nelson Mandela

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780230755949 | ISBN 10: 0230755941

    An unprecedented personal portrait of one of the great leaders of our time, in his own words. With a foreword by President Barack Obama. Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of takin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce Davies (Editor)
    Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment - by Carole Boyce Davies (Editor)

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956240163 | ISBN 10: 095624016x

    Claudia Jones was a smart, politically-wise, brilliant, transnational feminist, Pan Africanist theorist and cultural activist who brought together in her speeches and writings the politics that is now seen as a necessary way of intersecting a variet ... more

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  • Cover image of book Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning by Mike Rowbottom
    Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning - by Mike Rowbottom

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906413828 | ISBN 10: 1906413827

    Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet and one of the most popular athletes of all time. His dramatic world record-breaking feats in the 100 and 200 metres have earned him Olympic and world gold medals in the last couple of years. But what has ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goodbye, Mango Sergeant: Memoir of a Jamaica Trench Town Boy by Keith Walker
    Goodbye, Mango Sergeant: Memoir of a Jamaica Trench Town Boy - by Keith Walker

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906190392 | ISBN 10: 1906190399

    In the mid-1960s, Keith Walker said goodbye to the land of his birth to join his mother in England. It was the time of love and 'flower power', but life in London for a young, black man was cold, bleak, unfriendly and presented a whole new set of cha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X by Robert E. Terrill (editor)
    The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X - by Robert E. Terrill (editor)

    £20.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780521731577 | ISBN 10: 0521731577

    Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies by Tim Brannigan
    Where are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies - by Tim Brannigan

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780856408533 | ISBN 10: 0856408530

    Born into a devoutly Catholic Belfast family, Peggy Brannigan was devastated when she became pregnant as a result of an extra-marital affair with a black junior doctor. Unwilling to have an abortion or to have the baby adopted, Peggy came up with an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bob Marley: The Untold Story by Chris Salewicz
    Bob Marley: The Untold Story - by Chris Salewicz

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007255535 | ISBN 10: 0007255535

    What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rocknroll? How is that he has not only remained the single most successful reggae artist ever, but has also become a shining beacon of radicalism and peace to generation ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland
    Bite of the Mango - by Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408805190 | ISBN 10: 1408805197

    An astonishing story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumours of rebel attacks were no m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out by Malalai Joya
    Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out - by Malalai Joya

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041501 | ISBN 10: 1846041503

    Malalai Joya is the youngest and most famous female MP in Afghanistan, whose bravery and vision have won her an international following. She made world headlines with her very first speech, in which she courageously denounced the presence of warlords ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Settler
    The Settler's Cookbook: Tales of Love, Migration and Food - by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846270840 | ISBN 10: 1846270847

    This is a warm, personal memoir from one of Britain's most high-profile and vocal immigrants - a mouth-watering exploration of the author's East African Indian roots through the shared experience of cooking. Through the personal story of Yasmin's ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Londoners: A History by Susan Okokon
    Black Londoners: A History - by Susan Okokon

    £14.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752453750 | ISBN 10: 0752453750

    A tribute to the Black community of London.  This fascinating illustrated history traces the relationship of London to her Black citizens over the past centuries. Susan Okokon provides a detailed testimony and visual record of this importa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Country to Red China: One Girl
    Black Country to Red China: One Girl's Story from War-torn England to Revolutionary China - by Esther Cheo Ying

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536031 | ISBN 10: 009953603x

    Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
    China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation - by Xinran

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099501480 | ISBN 10: 0099501481

    China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words for the first and perhaps the last time the vast changes that have overt ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Gold Mountain: A Family Memoir of Love, Struggle and Survival by Lisa See
    On Gold Mountain: A Family Memoir of Love, Struggle and Survival - by Lisa See

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747599074 | ISBN 10: 0747599076

    A fascinating memoir of a Chinese-American family by the bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.  In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the Gold Mountain, the Chinese name for the promis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mao
    Mao's Last Dancer - by Li Cunxin

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141040226 | ISBN 10: 014104022x

    Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.  Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pilgrim State by Jacqueline Walker
    Pilgrim State - by Jacqueline Walker

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340960806 | ISBN 10: 0340960809

    Pilgrim State is a stunning memoir which tells the story of Dorothy Walker - equal parts beautiful, headstrong, brave and tragic. Her life is lovingly recreated by her daughter Jacqueline in homage to the remarkable woman she was. In the haunt ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tears of the Desert: One Woman
    Tears of the Desert: One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur - by Halima Bashir and Damien Lewis

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340963579 | ISBN 10: 0340963573

    Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified ... more

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  • Cover image of book Michelle Obama: A Biography by Liza Mundy
    Michelle Obama: A Biography - by Liza Mundy

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847397508 | ISBN 10: 1847397506

    She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"?   In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marria ... more

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  • Cover image of book Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience by Ziauddin Sardar
    Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience - by Ziauddin Sardar

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080820 | ISBN 10: 1847080820

    Ziauddin Sardar, whose acclaimed Desperately Seeking Paradise demystified Islam, gives his humane, sharp and witty perspective on the experience of being a British Asian. Sardar travels to the main Asian communities in the UK, to Leicester and Bi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War by Dang Thuy Tram
    Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War - by Dang Thuy Tram

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846040764 | ISBN 10: 1846040760

    'I've been up since 4 a.m, preparing for the enemy's attack...'  On June 22 1970, Dang Thuy Tram was killed by an American patrol in South Vietnam. She was an idealistic young doctor trying to defend her patients and, discovered amongst her p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ugly: The true story of a loveless childhood by Constance Briscoe
    Ugly: The true story of a loveless childhood - by Constance Briscoe

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340994658 | ISBN 10: 0340994657

    Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood.  Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
    Revolutionary Suicide - by Huey P. Newton

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780143105329 | ISBN 10: 0143105329

    Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newtons famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of Americas Black Panther Party.   From Newtons impoverished childhood on the str ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life
    Life's New Hurdles - by Colin Jackson

    £1.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906125936 | ISBN 10: 1906125937

    Colin Jackson is one of the greatest athletes that Britain has ever produced. He was in the world top ten for sixteen years, and was world number one for two of them. He set seven European and Commonwealth and nine UK records, and he still holds the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker
    Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence - by Rebecca Walker

    £15.00   hardback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780285638204 | ISBN 10: 0285638203

    After a lifetime of ambivalence and uncertainty about the role of motherhood in a woman's life, Rebecca Walker, hailed by Time Magazine as one of the most influential American leaders under forty, decided to have a baby.   Raised by her mother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - by Barack Obama

    £18.98   audiobook on CD   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847673282 | ISBN 10: 1847673287

    The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotion ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hand Me My Travelin
    Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell - by Michael Gray

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747565611 | ISBN 10: 0747565619

    "No one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell."(Bob Dylan) The great pre-war blues musician Blind Willie McTell was one of the most gifted artists of his generation, with an exquisite voice and a sublime talen for the 12-string guitar. Yet h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Time Traveller: One Man
    The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality - by Ronald Mallet with Bruce Henderson

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780552155755 | ISBN 10: 0552155756

    Ron Mallett was just 10 when his father died suddenly. Devastated, he found solace in the science fiction of H.G. Wells, believing that if he could just build a time machine, he could go back into the past, warn his father and perhaps save his life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila by Paul Rambali
    Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila - by Paul Rambali

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846686535 | ISBN 10: 1846686539

    Abebe Bikila was the first African to win an Olympic gold medal, running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and again - wearing shoes this time - in Tokyo four years later. His story has never been told.  Born in an Ethiopian village, Bikila joined the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - by Barack Obama

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670946 | ISBN 10: 1847670946

    In this memoir written at the age of 33, Barack Obama, son of a black African father and a white American mother, describes the search for meaning in his life as a black American. He begins in New York where he learns that his father, more a myth th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Perfect Hostage by Justin Wintle
    Perfect Hostage - by Justin Wintle

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099491156 | ISBN 10: 009949115x

    Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today.  Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, at great personal cost she has steadfastly opposed B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute by Bua Boonmee, with Nicola Pierce
    Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute - by Bua Boonmee, with Nicola Pierce

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905379439 | ISBN 10: 1905379439

    'Sometimes I wonder was I born to be unfortunate; is this my life my destiny? I pray to Biddha that this not be the case. My life seems to be that of a country girl who has spent her days escaping from a tiger, only to be eaten by a crocodile. Mine i ... more

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  • Cover image of book House Music: The Oona King Diaries by Oona King
    House Music: The Oona King Diaries - by Oona King

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593096 | ISBN 10: 0747593094

    How does it feel to lose your job in front of 10 million people? To become an MP in your twenties? To ask a Government Whip for time to see your husband? To sleep on the floor while waiting to vote in the middle of the night? To represent the Secreta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Foster Kid: A Liverpudlian Childhood by Paul Barber
    Foster Kid: A Liverpudlian Childhood - by Paul Barber

    £12.00   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780751539127 | ISBN 10: 0751539120

    After the death of his mother, Paul and his brothers and sister spent the rest of their childhoods in a succession of childrens and foster homes where they found themselves at the mercy of adults more interested in their own welfare than providing a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unbowed: My Autobiography by Wangari Maathai
    Unbowed: My Autobiography - by Wangari Maathai

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099493099 | ISBN 10: 0099493098

    'When I was a child, my surroundings were alive, dynamic, and inspiring. Even though I was entering a world where there were books to read and facts to learn - the cultivation of the mind - I was still able to enjoy a world where there were no books ... more

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  • Cover image of book Infidel: My Life by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Infidel: My Life - by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781416526247 | ISBN 10: 1416526242

    In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intellectual awakening in the Netherlands, to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black, White and Gold: My Autobiography by Kelly Holmes with Fanny Blake
    Black, White and Gold: My Autobiography - by Kelly Holmes with Fanny Blake

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753513170 | ISBN 10: 075351317x

    Kelly Holmes had two dreams - to join the army, and bring home a gold medal from the Olympic Games. But winning double gold in the 2004 Olympics and becoming Dame Kelly Holmes was much more than fulfilling a dream; it was a reward for a lifetime of r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu by John Allen
    Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu - by John Allen

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846040641 | ISBN 10: 1846040647

    Rabble-Rouser for Peace is the first book to tell the full story of how a boy from South Africa's poverty-stricken black townships became one of the world's best-known religious figures, a moral icon to those who work for peace and justice everywhere ... more

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  • Cover image of book Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival by Fadumo Korn and Sabine Eichhorst
    Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival - by Fadumo Korn and Sabine Eichhorst

    £19.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615311 | ISBN 10: 1558615318

    This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment. As a feisty nomad, Fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
    Mao: The Unknown Story - by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099507376 | ISBN 10: 0099507374

    Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biog ... more

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  • Cover image of book From There to Here: 16 True Tales of Immigration to Britain by Various authors
    From There to Here: 16 True Tales of Immigration to Britain - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141034119 | ISBN 10: 0141034114

    In February 2007, we asked people from any background to send us their true personal accounts of immigration to Britain. The response was significant, and the range of entries overwhelming. Five judges including Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty and the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel by Alek Wek
    Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel - by Alek Wek

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844084425 | ISBN 10: 1844084426

    Alek Wek grew up in the Sudan in the midst of the vicious civil war. Now, at age 28, she is one of the most sought-after supermodels in the world, and has single-handedly changed the traditional concept of what is beautiful in the West. As model, ref ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary 1946-1968 by Nelson Peary
    Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary 1946-1968 - by Nelson Peary

    £21.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595581457 | ISBN 10: 1595581456

    Black Fire, the celebrated first volume of Nelson Peerys riveting autobiography, told the story of his childhood and teenage years during the Depression and his subsequent political awakening as a soldier in the all-black 93rd Infantry Division in W ... more

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  • Cover image of book And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen by Doreen Lawrence
    And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen - by Doreen Lawrence

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571234592 | ISBN 10: 0571234593

    This is the heartbreaking story of a mother's loss. It is also the story of how one ordinary black woman and her husband changed the face of British policing and the criminal justice system.In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Catch Me Before I Fall by Rosie Childs
    Catch Me Before I Fall - by Rosie Childs

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780753512203 | ISBN 10: 0753512203

    When Rosie Childs was born, as Clare Malone, her life was immediately different to those around her - she was a black child in an all-white family and on an all-white Liverpool council, estate in the 1950s, and therefore living proof of her mother's ... more

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  • Cover image of book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
    First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - by Loung Ung

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781840185195 | ISBN 10: 1840185198

    Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights and being cheeky to her parents.  When ... more

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  • Cover image of book Picklehead: From Ceylon to Suburbia - A Memoir of Food, Family and Finding Yourself by Rohan Candappa
    Picklehead: From Ceylon to Suburbia - A Memoir of Food, Family and Finding Yourself - by Rohan Candappa

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780091897796 | ISBN 10: 0091897793

    Part memoir of growing up Asian in 70s South London, part travel-history and part an exotic meditation on the importance of food, Picklehead is a book like no other. When it's not making you laugh, it's making you think or making you hungry. And some ... more

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  • Cover image of book Desert Children by Waris Dirie
    Desert Children - by Waris Dirie

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844082513 | ISBN 10: 1844082512

    Fashion model, US ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away through the desert; being discovered by Teren ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X - by Malcolm X

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141032726 | ISBN 10: 0141032723

    Malcolm X's blazing, legendary auto-biography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling and cocaine in the Harlem ghetto, followed by prison, wher ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Freedom Stairs: The Story of Adam Lowry Rankin, Underground Railroad Conductor by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
    The Freedom Stairs: The Story of Adam Lowry Rankin, Underground Railroad Conductor - by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780828320849 | ISBN 10: 0828320845

    The Rankin family helped to bring over 2000 slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Discover their world through the eyes of Adam, the oldest of the Rankin children. ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown
    A Piece of Cake: A Memoir - by Cupcake Brown

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780553818178 | ISBN 10: 0553818171

    From beloved daughter to abused foster child to crack addict, this is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown. Following her mothers death, Cupcake was just eleven years old when she entered the child welfare system. Moved f ... more

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  • Cover image of book With Billie by Julia Blackburn
    With Billie - by Julia Blackburn

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099483656 | ISBN 10: 0099483653

    Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 ... more

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  • Cover image of book What the Chinese Don
    What the Chinese Don't Eat - by Xinran

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099501527 | ISBN 10: 009950152x

    In June 2003 Xinran began writing about China for her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Gold of the Sun by Ekow Eshun
    Black Gold of the Sun - by Ekow Eshun

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141010960 | ISBN 10: 0141010967

    Growing up in London, Ekow Eshun never felt truly at home. Born in Britain to African parents, he found himself caught between two cultures without fully belonging to either. Plagued by the unease of dual identity, he travels to Africa to look for an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
    Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran - by Azadeh Moaveni

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781586483784 | ISBN 10: 1586483781

    Azadeh Moaveni was born in Palo Alto, California, into an Iranian diaspora community longing for an Iran thousands of miles - and a revolution - away. As far back as she can remember, she felt uncomfortable with her tangled identity. College magnifie ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism by Helene Lee and Stephen Davis
    The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism - by Helene Lee and Stephen Davis

    £14.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781556525582 | ISBN 10: 1556525583

    Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta - ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks - this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Barefoot Gen - Vol. 2: The Day After by Keiji Nakazawa
    Barefoot Gen - Vol. 2: The Day After - by Keiji Nakazawa

    £13.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780867196191 | ISBN 10: 086719619x

    Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A.  Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life i ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father by Hanif Kureishi
    My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father - by Hanif Kureishi

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571224043 | ISBN 10: 0571224040

    Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's attempts to be a writer. The wellspring of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ready for Revolution: The Life & Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Stokely Carmichael
    Ready for Revolution: The Life & Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) - by Stokely Carmichael

    £19.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780684850047 | ISBN 10: 0684850044

    Head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party. Bestselling author. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) is an American legend, one whose work as a civil rights leader fundamentally altered the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Book by Whoopi Goldberg
    Book - by Whoopi Goldberg

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780751526332 | ISBN 10: 0751526339

    "Here's where I'm supposed to say all kinds of hip, Whoopi-esque stuff to get you to buy the book... when I tell you in my own inimitable way, how uproarious and provocative this book is, how OUT THERE and cutting edge... Or, I could say things like, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
    The Sewing Circles of Herat - by Christina Lamb

    £12.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780007142521 | ISBN 10: 0007142528

    In the ancient city of Herat, once the cradle of Afgahan civilization, Christina Lamb stumbled upon the Golden Needle Ladies' Sewing Circle, a group apparently dedicated to one of the few female pastimes that the Taliban regime allowed. But it was mu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Dust by Ma Jian
    Red Dust - by Ma Jian

    £10.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099283294 | ISBN 10: 0099283298

    'My painter friends think I am a die-hard conservative, my writer friends think I am a man of loose morals. In Jushlin Temple I am a quiet disciple, in the Propaganda Department I am a decadent youth. Women call me a cynical artist, the police call m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - by Harriet Jacobs

    £8.95   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780393976373 | ISBN 10: 0393976378

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. It tells the story of Harriet Jacobs's early life as a slave in North Carolina; her fugitive years in New York, Boston, and Rochester ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Claybourne Carson (Ed)
    The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Claybourne Carson (Ed)

    £12.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780349112985 | ISBN 10: 0349112983

    Compiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King, Jr. - the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who constantly questionned the depths of his f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets by Leon E. Pettiway
    Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets - by Leon E. Pettiway

    £26.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9781566394987 | ISBN 10: 1566394988

    Many straight Americans would never embrace homosexuals as neighbors, co-workers, or friends. Still less would they accept as equals those transgendered individuals who work the streets to provide themselves with drug money.   This book seeks ... more

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  • Cover image of book All God
    All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9781844085057 | ISBN 10: 1844085058

    Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, j ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
    The Heart of a Woman - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1986) - ISBN 13: 9781844085040 | ISBN 10: 184408504x

    Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, j ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
    Gather Together in My Name - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9781844085026 | ISBN 10: 1844085023

    Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Singin
    Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9781844085033 | ISBN 10: 1844085031

    Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, j ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9780860685111 | ISBN 10: 086068511x

    Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, jo ... more

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