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There are 29 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913090678 | ISBN 10: 1913090671
A Book of Secrets is the story of a woman named Susan Charlewood living in Elizabethan England. Born in what is now Ghana, Susan is enslaved by the Portuguese but later rescued by British sailors, who bring her to England. Once in England, she is rai ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241982518 | ISBN 10: 0241982510
THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER
OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK
"One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved...."(Oprah Winfrey)
The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaim ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910258095 | ISBN 10: 1910258091
In late seventeenth century London two women, one white, one black, stake everything to prevent a manipulative mogul destroying them. Zenobia, born in poverty, grasps that her only hope of controlling her own life is to capitalise on her looks; Lily, ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873387 | ISBN 10: 1784873381
The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA
Win ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241975237 | ISBN 10: 0241975239
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Book
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Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generatio ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780708898406 | ISBN 10: 0708898408
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016
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£15.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781419709470 | ISBN 10: 141970947x
Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.
More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss o ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784703660 | ISBN 10: 1784703664
An unforgettable tale of slavery in the American South.
Once I lived in a place where demons dwelled. I was one of them.
Ginny lives on her husband’s pig farm ninety miles from nowhere. Far from the paradise she was promised, this is a bleak ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859644270 | ISBN 10: 1859644279
In 1527 the Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, dise ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781906582920 | ISBN 10: 1906582920
Liverpool, 1863: Newly arrived in England, wealthy liberals enlist Trinity, an escaped slave girl, in their campaign to abolish slavery and support Abraham Lincoln’s Union. Jubal, a high-ranking Confederate officer, has arrived to find supporters and ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472214812 | ISBN 10: 1472214811
A modern black woman is transported to 19th century Maryland, where she faces the cruel realities of slavery. Kindred, Octavia E. Butler's masterpiece, is an essential read and 'a shattering work of art' (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner).
On her 26th b ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780749015978 | ISBN 10: 0749015977
The gripping novel based on a true story of slavery
Please make court understand we free men who want be free again. We want go home. We pray you to win our case. You our friend. We trust you.
In 1839, fifty-three African slaves ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472212771 | ISBN 10: 1472212770
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.
Sarah Grimk is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkab ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007350353 | ISBN 10: 000735035x
The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines an ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099578758 | ISBN 10: 0099578751
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012.
An unforgettable story of a woman determined to find her freedom - set in South Africa in 1830s, as slavery was about to be abolished.
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the libera ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007348657 | ISBN 10: 0007348657
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349121536 | ISBN 10: 0349121532
The American Civil War is in full flame, and tobacco plantation slave Cassius Howard finds he must risk everything to learn the brutal truth concerning the murder of Emoline Justice, the freed black woman who secretly taught him to read and who once ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552775489 | ISBN 10: 0552775487
Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom – and of finding her way home again. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she pass ... more
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£17.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780813927671 | ISBN 10: 0813927676
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Ma ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099507987 | ISBN 10: 0099507986
In Laura Fish’s ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her famil ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141031521 | ISBN 10: 0141031522
Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World.
... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099502548 | ISBN 10: 0099502542
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root.
J ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099520566 | ISBN 10: 0099520567
Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. Â It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian p ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536559 | ISBN 10: 0199536554
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.
So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white b ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099481522 | ISBN 10: 0099481529
1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099511656 | ISBN 10: 0099511657
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn f ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780755332700 | ISBN 10: 0755332709
The sequel to Lalita Tademy`s bestselling Cane River, the heartbreaking and compelling story of her family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War.
Now, in Red River, she takes readers on a new journey: that of her father's family, w ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845230043 | ISBN 10: 1845230043
Slave Song is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean / Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and established Dabydeen as ... more
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£24.00 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780300107579 | ISBN 10: 0300107579
Bringing together more than 400 poems and poetic excerpts on slavery by writers both famous and unknown, this landmark anthology charts the emergence of slavery in the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. "The most definitive colle ... more
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