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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully toda ... more
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Different Voices Shared Lives: A Collection of New Writing from Voices Across Liverpool City Region - by Various authors

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

Different Voices Shared Lives is a unique collection of writing by members of black, Asian and other racial minority communities from across the Liverpool City Region which offers new insights into the region’s culture and heritage. This book bring ... more
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice - by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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