Black Culture & History

Earthquake on Orange Street: Buster's Jamaican Singles Story - Jeremy Collingwood

Earthquake on Orange Street: Buster's Jamaican Singles Story - Jeremy Collingwood

Mind-boggling discography devoted to the Jamaican releases of Prince Buster's productions from 196..

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East of Acre Lane - Alex Wheatle, Paul Gilroy (Introduction By)

East of Acre Lane - Alex Wheatle, Paul Gilroy (Introduction By)

East of Acre Lane is the fast-paced and razor sharp story of a young man trying to do the right th..

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Egostrip Book 1 - Dan Lish

Egostrip Book 1 - Dan Lish

Egostrip Book 1 is a beautifully designed collection of Dan Lish’s stunning character illustration..

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Ethiopia: Power And Protest : Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century - Gebru Tareke

Ethiopia: Power And Protest : Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century - Gebru Tareke

This study of popular protest and resistance in Ethiopia focuses on three important peasant-based ..

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Every Light in the House Burnin' - Andrea Levy

Every Light in the House Burnin' - Andrea Levy

The remarkable, emotional debut novel, both funny and moving, which was longlisted for the Orange ..

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Face - Benjamin Zephaniah

Face - Benjamin Zephaniah

In the moving and compelling debut novel from Benjamin Zephaniah, a young man's life is completely..

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Familiar Stranger : A Life between Two Islands - Stuart Hall

Familiar Stranger : A Life between Two Islands - Stuart Hall

This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and..

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Fanon for Beginners - Deborah Baker Wyrick

Fanon for Beginners - Deborah Baker Wyrick

Philosopher, psychoanalyst, politician, propagandist, prophet. although difficult to categorise, F..

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Feminism, Interrupted : Disrupting Power - Lola Olufemi

Feminism, Interrupted : Disrupting Power - Lola Olufemi

Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast ..

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Feminist Theory : From Margin to Center - bell hooks

Feminist Theory : From Margin to Center - bell hooks

Feminist Theory established bell hooks as one of international feminism's most challenging and inf..

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Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks

Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks

Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground..

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Fishing in the Aftermath - Poems 1994-2014 - Salena Godden

Fishing in the Aftermath - Poems 1994-2014 - Salena Godden

Be clear, Fishing in the Aftermath is more that a sweeping up exercise, more than a greatest hits ..

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Frantz Fanon : Philosopher of the Barricades - Peter Hudis

Frantz Fanon : Philosopher of the Barricades - Peter Hudis

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary w..

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Freedom - Catherine Johnson

Freedom - Catherine Johnson

Winner of the Little Rebels Children's Book Award 2019!"Filled with humour, compassion and ho..

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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Davis

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Davis

In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggle..

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From Bobby To Babylon - Darcus Howe

From Bobby To Babylon - Darcus Howe

From Bobby to Babylon, originally published in 1988, brings together a series of articles and in..

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From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz : The History of the Uk Jazz Dance Scene - Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove

From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz : The History of the Uk Jazz Dance Scene - Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove

This is the first time the history of the uniquely British 'Jazz Dance' scene has been documented ..

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From the Streets of Shaolin : The Wu-Tang Saga - S.H Fernando Jr.

From the Streets of Shaolin : The Wu-Tang Saga - S.H Fernando Jr.

This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Heralde..

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Gangsta Rap - Benjamin Zephaniah

Gangsta Rap - Benjamin Zephaniah

Just what do you do with talent from the wrong side of town? Benjamin Zephaniah draws on his own e..

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Gather Together In My Name - Maya Angelou

Gather Together In My Name - Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extr..

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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker - Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker - Alice Walker

For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the compl..

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Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 - Kenny Mathieson

Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 - Kenny Mathieson

Giant Steps examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emer..

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Gil Scott-heron : A Father and Son Story - Leslie Gordon Goffe

Gil Scott-heron : A Father and Son Story - Leslie Gordon Goffe

Gil Scott-Heron: a father & son story, is about professional footballer, Gil Heron, who was ..

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Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair..

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Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo

This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newca..

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Go Ahead in the Rain : Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

Go Ahead in the Rain : Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre..

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Grand Union - Zadie Smith

Grand Union - Zadie Smith

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, ..

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Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely writte..

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Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an Amer..

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Harlem 69 : The Future of Soul - Stuart Cosgrove

Harlem 69 : The Future of Soul - Stuart Cosgrove

In 1969, among Harlem's Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Ar..

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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities - Herbie Hancock & Lisa Dickey (With)

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities - Herbie Hancock & Lisa Dickey (With)

The warmly welcomed memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time   I..

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Here to Stay, Here to Fight : A Race Today Anthology -  Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan, Margaret Peacock

Here to Stay, Here to Fight : A Race Today Anthology - Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan, Margaret Peacock

From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the e..

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Hold Tight : Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime - Jeffrey Boakye

Hold Tight : Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime - Jeffrey Boakye

HOLD TIGHT is the book that kick started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting into bookshops in July 2017..

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Holy Ghost : The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler - Richard Koloda

Holy Ghost : The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler - Richard Koloda

Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as..

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Home to Harlem - Claude McKay

Home to Harlem - Claude McKay

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movem..

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Homecoming : Voices of the Windrush Generation - Colin Grant

Homecoming : Voices of the Windrush Generation - Colin Grant

Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the w..

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Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave t..

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Hostile Environment : How Immigrants Become the Scapegoats - Maya Goodfellow

Hostile Environment : How Immigrants Become the Scapegoats - Maya Goodfellow

The UK government proudly calls the aim of its immigration policy to be the creation of a "hostile..

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Hurricane Child - Kacen Callender

Hurricane Child - Kacen Callender

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award By National Book Award ..

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I & I: The Natural Mystics : Marley, Tosh and Wailer - Colin Grant

I & I: The Natural Mystics : Marley, Tosh and Wailer - Colin Grant

The history of the original Wailers - Tosh, Livingstone and Marley - as never before told. ..

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I Am A Revolutionary : Fred Hampton Speaks -  Fred Hampton Jr.& Bedour Alagraa

I Am A Revolutionary : Fred Hampton Speaks - Fred Hampton Jr.& Bedour Alagraa

Out 1st Feb 2022, pre-order here.'I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I be..

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I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin & Raoul Peck

I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin & Raoul Peck

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film. In June 1979, the wri..

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I Heard What You Said - Jeffrey Boakye

I Heard What You Said - Jeffrey Boakye

Out June 2022, pre order here.Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Whi..

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I Just Can't Stop It : My Life in The Beat - Ranking Roger & Daniel Rachel

I Just Can't Stop It : My Life in The Beat - Ranking Roger & Daniel Rachel

I Just Can't Stop It is the honest and compelling autobiography from British Music Legend, Ranking..

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiogra..

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If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautif..

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If He Hollers Let Him Go - Chester Himes & Jake Arnott

If He Hollers Let Him Go - Chester Himes & Jake Arnott

Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lo..

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If They Come in the Morning - Angela Davis

If They Come in the Morning - Angela Davis

"The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and n..

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In Search of Mary Seacole : The Making of a Cultural Icon - Helen Rappaport

In Search of Mary Seacole : The Making of a Cultural Icon - Helen Rappaport

In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography that explores her remarkable achieve..

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In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming

In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'Nine-year-old G...

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In the Midnight Hour : The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett - Tony Fletcher

In the Midnight Hour : The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett - Tony Fletcher

He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included "In the Mi..

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Incomparable World - S.I. Martin & Bernardine Evaristo (Introduction By)

Incomparable World - S.I. Martin & Bernardine Evaristo (Introduction By)

A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers..

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Inglorious Empire : What the British Did to India - Shashi Tharoor

Inglorious Empire : What the British Did to India - Shashi Tharoor

In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, ..

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Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime - Dan Hancox

Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime - Dan Hancox

'The definitive grime biography' NME 'A landmark genre history' Pit..

£9.99

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-America..

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It Came From Memphis : Updated & Revised - Robert Gordon, Peter Guralnick (Foreword By) , Hanif Abdurraqib (Foreword By)

It Came From Memphis : Updated & Revised - Robert Gordon, Peter Guralnick (Foreword By) , Hanif Abdurraqib (Foreword By)

Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of mo..

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Jamaican Music In England : From the 1960s to the 1980s - A Historical Guide - Eric Doumerc

Jamaican Music In England : From the 1960s to the 1980s - A Historical Guide - Eric Doumerc

An exploration of the three crucial decades in the growth and development of Jamaican popular mu..

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James Baldwin : Living in Fire - Bill V. Mullen

James Baldwin : Living in Fire - Bill V. Mullen

In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the perso..

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Jazz - Toni Morrison

Jazz - Toni Morrison

Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrison's voice..

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Jazz and Justice : Racism and the Political Economy of the Music - Gerald Horne

Jazz and Justice : Racism and the Political Economy of the Music - Gerald Horne

The music we call "jazz" arose in late nineteenth century North America--most likely in New Orlean..

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Journey as the Wire Bend: Up River Where the Story End  Lisa Levi & Wyvanwy Evans

Journey as the Wire Bend: Up River Where the Story End Lisa Levi & Wyvanwy Evans

... beware, beware and Annabelle, Lagahoo near, near ...Bigga, Percy and Annabelle become caught u..

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Journey Back to Freedom : The Olaudah Equiano Story - Catherine Johnson & Katie Hickey

Journey Back to Freedom : The Olaudah Equiano Story - Catherine Johnson & Katie Hickey

From the horrors of the slave trade to a book that changed the world, Catherine Johnson celebrates..

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Kansas City Lightning : The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker - Stanley Crouch

Kansas City Lightning : The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker - Stanley Crouch

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-a..

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Katherine Johnson - Leila Rasheed

Katherine Johnson - Leila Rasheed

Katherine Johnson: teacher, mathematician, trailblazer. Award-winning children's author, L..

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Kemosha of the Caribbean - Alex Wheatle

Kemosha of the Caribbean - Alex Wheatle

Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port..

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Kind Of Blue : Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece - Ashley Kahn

Kind Of Blue : Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece - Ashley Kahn

In the early spring of 1959, six musicians went into the 30th Street Studio in New York. Nine hour..

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Kindred : The ground-breaking masterpiece - Octavia E. Butler

Kindred : The ground-breaking masterpiece - Octavia E. Butler

The Pool In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana firs..

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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia Butler & John Jennings

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia Butler & John Jennings

Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler's bestse..

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Kitch : A fictional biography of a calypso icon - Anthony Joseph

Kitch : A fictional biography of a calypso icon - Anthony Joseph

Combining factual biography with the imaginative structure of the novel, Anthony Joseph gets to th..

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Knock Out! : The True Story of Emile Griffith - Reinhard Kleist

Knock Out! : The True Story of Emile Griffith - Reinhard Kleist

The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the..

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Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday

'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"I've been told ..

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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones - Carole Boyce Davies

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones - Carole Boyce Davies

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jo..

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Letter To My Daughter  - Maya Angelou

Letter To My Daughter - Maya Angelou

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to my Daughter reveals May..

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Letters from London - CLR James

Letters from London - CLR James

In 1932 the young writer and political activist CLR James arrived in London from his native Trinid..

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Lick It Back: Bob Marley The Jamaican Vinyl Story - Jeremy Collingwood

Lick It Back: Bob Marley The Jamaican Vinyl Story - Jeremy Collingwood

Lick It Back is the story of Bob Marley's extraordinary career told through his Jamaican vinyl rel..

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Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds & Chris Priestley

Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds & Chris Priestley

When Shawn, the beloved big brother of 15-year-old Will, is shot dead, Will is ready to follow "..

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Lote - Shola von Reinhold

Lote - Shola von Reinhold

Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold's decadent queer literary debut immerses r..

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Lovers and Strangers : An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - Clair Wills

Lovers and Strangers : An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - Clair Wills

The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the fac..

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Lucy Parsons : American Revolutionary - Carolyn Ashbaugh

Lucy Parsons : American Revolutionary - Carolyn Ashbaugh

A woman ahead of her time, Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who defied all the conventio..

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Manchester Happened - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Manchester Happened - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi's stories know, it's how to field an uncom..

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Mandela, The Graphic Novel - Umlando Wezithombe

Mandela, The Graphic Novel - Umlando Wezithombe

Freedom fighter, fugitive, celebrated prisoner, president: the hero of a nation. Nelson Mandela wa..

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March Book One - Andrew Aydin & John Lewis

March Book One - Andrew Aydin & John Lewis

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights move..

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Maroon Comix -  Seth Tobocman, Mac McGill & Saul Quincy

Maroon Comix - Seth Tobocman, Mac McGill & Saul Quincy

Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies i..

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Marshall Law : The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther - Mumia Abu Jamal & Marshall Conway

Marshall Law : The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther - Mumia Abu Jamal & Marshall Conway

"In prose both concise and personal, Eddie Conway's memoir is essentially a story about hope. Here..

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Martin Luther King Jr. - Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Mai Ly Degnan

Martin Luther King Jr. - Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Mai Ly Degnan

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAM..

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Me and White Supremacy : How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World - Layla Saad

Me and White Supremacy : How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World - Layla Saad

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that th..

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Memphis 68 : The Tragedy of Southern Soul - Stuart Cosgrove

Memphis 68 : The Tragedy of Southern Soul - Stuart Cosgrove

In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha ..

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Miles: The Autobiography - Miles Davis

Miles: The Autobiography - Miles Davis

Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles aga..

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Minty Alley: Black Britain - C.L.R. James & Bernardine Evaristo (Introduction By)

Minty Alley: Black Britain - C.L.R. James & Bernardine Evaristo (Introduction By)

The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted explo..

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Moses Ascending - Sam Selvon

Moses Ascending - Sam Selvon

Sam Selvon’s Moses Ascending depicts West Indian Immigration in England. Moses, a Trinidadian who ..

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Mother Country : Real Stories of the Windrush Children - Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

Mother Country : Real Stories of the Windrush Children - Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne B..

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Mr Loverman  - Bernardine Evaristo

Mr Loverman - Bernardine Evaristo

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's..

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Mrs Death Misses Death - Salena Godden

Mrs Death Misses Death - Salena Godden

Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks ..

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Musical Truth : A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain - Jeffrey Boakye & Ngadi Smart

Musical Truth : A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain - Jeffrey Boakye & Ngadi Smart

Music can carry the stories of history like a message in a bottle. Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, S..

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My Darling from the Lions - Rachel Long

My Darling from the Lions - Rachel Long

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionThis debut collection is the modern poe..

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma & the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies - Resmaa Menakem

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma & the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies - Resmaa Menakem

The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In t..

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My Name Is Why - Lemn Sissay

My Name Is Why - Lemn Sissay

How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This stor..

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My Song : A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance - Harry Belafonte

My Song : A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance - Harry Belafonte

My Song is an inspiring story of performance and protest, from a superstar singer and actor who wa..

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Needle - Patrice Lawrence

Needle - Patrice Lawrence

A powerful and heart-rending exploration of a teenager's journey through grief, rage and getting c..

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Normski : Man with the Golden Shutter - Norman Anderson

Normski : Man with the Golden Shutter - Norman Anderson

Normski was a vital witness to the period known as the Golden Age of Rap, when big US artists like..

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