Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - £20.00
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.   As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if t ... more
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Rhumba by Elaine Proctor - £8.99
Ten-year-old Flambeau waits for his young mother to arrive from the Congo, along the same dangerous route that the human traffickers smuggled him. Homesick and pining for love, he sees a glimpse of life in his young neighbor, Eleanor, and her gangste ... more
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Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan - £8.99
Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. The monk, Hypa, embarks on a journey both physical and ... more
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing by Craig Collie - £9.99
The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them instantly.   Craig Collie is the first person to interview elderly survivors and desce ... more
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Of Africa by Wole Soyinka - £16.99
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing ... more
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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela - £12.99
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny.   Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long W ... more
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Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi - £14.99
A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.   This is the story of a family -- of the simpl ... more
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To Do Wid Me: Benjamin Zephaniah Filmed Live & Direct by Benjamin Zephaniah, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce - £12.00
To Do Wid Me is a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, drawing on both live performances and informal interviews.  It shows him performing his poetry for different audiences and talking about his work, life, beliefs an ... more
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Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Barnaby Martin - £14.99
"You must write down this story as a record because very soon I will forget. And I realize it can be a very important record because it shows the general condition of this state, of this judicial system, of this kind of mentality and behaviour."(Ai W ... more
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Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil - £7.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE.   Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful young woman leans to hold a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her dark eyes. Around h ... more
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The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus by Peggy and Murray Schwartz - £15.00
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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New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities by Srila Roy (Editor) - £19.99
South Asian Feminism is in crisis. Under constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-opted by 'NGO-ization' and neoliberal state agendas, once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideolog ... more
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - £9.99
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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Hidden Gems Volume Two: Contemporary Black British Plays by Deirdre Osborne (Editor) - £16.99
Includes the plays A Bitter Herb, The Far Side, Identity, Mary Seacole, Absolution, and Urban Afro-Saxons.  This second and sister volume to Hidden Gems showcases a further range of plays by Black British writers whose work reaches beyond the ... more
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Vulture Peak by John Burdett - £7.99
The fifth Bangkok novel featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the former Buddhist monk.   Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police offic ... more
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Under the Hawthorn Tree by Ai Mi - £7.99
A tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, and a major film from the director of House of Flying Daggers.   Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one o ... more
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai - £7.99
Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness.   Twenty years of fai ... more
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Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon - £12.99
In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War thro ... more
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif - £7.99
From the author of the award-winning, critically-acclaimed debut, A Case of Exploding Mangoes.  The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Al ... more
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The Motherland Call: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women, 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne - £12.99
Very little attention has been given to the thousands of black British, Caribbean and West African servicemen and - women who supported the British war effort from 1939–45. Black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the a ... more
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The Rough Guide to Thailand by Rough Guides - £16.99
The Rough Guide to Thailand is the most comprehensive and informative guide available to this spectacular country. This new edition is in full colour, with clear and appealing maps and vibrant photography that brings Thailand to life.   You’ll ... more
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe - £20.00
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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I Used to Say My Mother Was Shirley Bassey by Stephen K. Amos - £16.99
Stephen K. Amos's hilarious memoir of a life fitting in, standing out, and (almost) always laughing.   Growing up in a large Nigerian family in South London, Stephen K. Amos learnt early on to find the humour in every situation. Raised by his ... more
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The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila (Editor) - £12.99
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinatin ... more
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From The Bottom Of The Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King by Robert Hillary King - £12.99
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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Report From Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson - £8.99
Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurou ... more
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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - £12.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE.   Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks sol ... more
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Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir by Pauline Black - £8.99
Probably best-known for her role as lead singer in The Selecter, one of the best British ska / 2 tone bands of the early 1980s, Pauline Black has lived a life rich in contradictions. Mixed-race, adopted to a middle-aged white couple, tracing some of ... more
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Twelve Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey (Editors) - £12.99
When Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was questioned by the police on the front porch of his home in an affluent section of Cambridge, many people across the country reacted with surprise and disbelief. But African American men from coast to c ... more
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Only The Mountains Do Not Move: A Maasai Story of Culture and Conservation by Jan Reynolds - £5.99
Nobody can say he is settled anywhere forever; it is only the mountains which do not move from their places.   So goes a Maasai proverb, and so goes the lives of the Maasai in Africa. For hundreds of years they have moved with their herd ... more
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Black Images In The Comics by Fredrik Strömberg - £14.99
This book spotlights over 100 comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels to feature black characters from all over the world over the last century, and the result is a fascinating journey to, if not enlightenment, then at least away from the horre ... more
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Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships by Ray Costello - £65.00
During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and ‘top men’, working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merch ... more
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Drifting House by Krys Lee - £7.99
A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.   Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigra ... more
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When the Thrill is Gone by Walter Mosley - £7.99
Leonid McGill is back, in the most enthralling and ambitious instalment of Mosley's latest New York Times bestselling series.  The economy has hit the PI business hard, and Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's work ... more
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The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah - £7.99
One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the da ... more
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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance by Harry Belafonte and Michael Schnayerson - £14.99
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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Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets by Jackie Kay, James Procter and Gemma Robinson (Editors) - £12.00
From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh ... more
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Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru - £8.99
2008. The California desert. A four-year-old boy disappears in the wilderness and his parents find themselves at the centre of a media witch-hunt. A British rock star hides out at a run-down motel. A teenage Iraqi refugee lives a surreal life as a ro ... more
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Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay - £12.99
Hot on the heels of Fiere and Red Dust Road, a generous new collection from a storyteller in a class of her own.  This is a book about memories, love, sex and the power of the imagination to see us through the most difficult times.  ... more
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Home by Toni Morrison - £12.99
The powerful new novel from Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, that excavates the pain of a soldier's homecoming in 1950s America.   An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist Am ... more
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward - £7.99
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her thre ... more
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A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial by Peter Harris - £9.99
1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions ... more
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Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo - £10.99
Ama Ata Aidoo is an iconic African writer who has inspired generations of black and other women writers on the continent and in the Diaspora. Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories, her latest collection of short stories brings together diverse themes t ... more
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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly - £9.99
"I have a dream."   When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly ... more
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Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin - £7.99
Combining a unique setting with universal themes, Please Look After Mother is a beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love.  Please Look After Mother is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has l ... more
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Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic by Alan Rice - £16.99
This book investigates memorials and monuments to slavery throughout the African diaspora, but with an emphasis on Europe. It analyses not only the increasing number of physical monuments, but also the practice of remembering (and forgetting) in muse ... more
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Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar - £8.99
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father.   Until Mona.  When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her b ... more
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Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord - £8.99
Paama, who is a great cook, has returned to her family after 10 years of marriage to the gluttonous Ansige, but two years later he hires the master tracker Kwame to find her. Kwame needs the money to finance his own wanderlust and reluctantly takes t ... more
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Hostel Room 131 by R. Raj Rao - £8.99
In the winter of 1978, Siddharth, twenty-three, meets Sudhir, twenty, in a friend's friend's room in Pune's Engineering College Hostel. He falls instantly in love.   A man of unconventional views - he believes, for instance, that the two hero ... more
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Open City by Teju Cole - £7.99
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process hi ... more
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I & I: The Natural Mystics by Colin Grant - £9.99
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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