Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
By: David Harewood
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'…
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1. May I Have Your Attention, Please?
By: James Corden
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The warm, hilarious story of the Gavin and Stacey cocreator and starAs far back as he can remember … read more
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- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something."-James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?
"It's strange how things seem to come full circle. You know what I mean? I'm sure you do. The way your life seems to drift along with no set path, then something good happens to you and you can trace …"-James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?
"It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglectin…"-James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?
2. The Good Immigrant
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more
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"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
3. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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- nonfiction
- society
- audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
4. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- society
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
5. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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- autobiography
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- audiobook
6. Just Sayin': My Life In Words
By: Malorie Blackman
4.53
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words
7. I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was
By: Ruby Wax
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing abou… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
9. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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- memoir
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- audiobook
11. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring
By: Davina McCall
4.31
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- society
- audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
13. Rising to the Surface
By: Lenny Henry
3.58
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s. 'Mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
By: Michael Rosen
4.00
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more
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- biography
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- mental health
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. A Dutiful Boy
By: Mohsin Zaidi
4.57
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Like Educated with a mo… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. That Peckham Boy
By: Kenny Imafidon
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Poverty Safari and Skint Estate , That Peckham Boy is a reallife manifesto calling… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
17. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories
By: Chris Atkins
4.34
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. I Heard What You Said
By: Jeffrey Boakye
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifet… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope
By: Clive Myrie
4.31
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why do we write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the worry tha… read more
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- audiobook
21. Black and British: A Short, Essential History
By: David Olusoga
4.52
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A short, essential introduction to Black British history When did Africans first come to Britain… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
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22. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
By: Afua Hirsch
4.32
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more
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"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
23. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
By: David Harewood
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more
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- nonfiction
- society
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24. It Takes Blood and Guts
By: Skin
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Skin, the trail-blazing lead singer of multi-million-selling rock band Skunk Anansie, is a global f… read more
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"Visage Pur Cream Your Path To Raised Skin Easily And Care Quickly What can cause lines? This issue was previously prevented because individuals somehow got used-to the very fact that getting old is c…"-Skin, It Takes Blood and Guts
25. Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online
By: Harriet Gibsone
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ a… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Who Am I, Again?
By: Lenny Henry
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer ber… read more
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27. Cack-Handed: A Memoir
By: Gina Yashere
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit serie… read more
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- nonfiction
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28. My Family: The Memoir
By: David Baddiel
4.41
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
29. Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality
By: Lenny Henry
4.42
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.I… read more
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- race
- biography
- audiobook
30. The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism
By: John Barnes
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his fam… read more
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31. The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity
By: Naomi Evans
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | … read more
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