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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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.
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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