African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
By: Hakim Adi
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more
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- history
- british literature
3. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
By: Trevor Burnard
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a br… read more
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5. Black London: Life Before Emancipation
By: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Gerzina (Vassar Coll.) has written a fascinating account of London blacks, focusing on the late 18t… read more
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6. Native Son
By: Richard Wright
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more
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7. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
By: Sally Hayden
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more
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- nonfiction
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8. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- nonfiction
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
9. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
12. The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
By: Antonia Fraser
3.72
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Caroline Norton, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women. Poet, pamphleteer and a… read more
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13. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- audiobook
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
14. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
15. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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16. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
17. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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18. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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19. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
20. The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
3.57
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more
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"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
21. Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
By: Leanda de Lisle
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
***A Best Book of 2022, The Times ******Book of the Year, Spectator ***A myth-busting biography of … read more
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22. November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War
By: Peter Englund
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, as experienced by the people who l… read more
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23. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
24. Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
By: Otto English
3.76
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies eve… read more
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25. Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
By: Blessin Adams
3.86
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most fou… read more
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26. Un féminisme décolonial
By: Françoise Vergès
4.35
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more
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27. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
By: Sudhir Hazareesingh
3.85
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Haitian revolution began in the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in November… read more
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28. The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone fo… read more
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29. African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
By: Hakim Adi
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of Britain that will transform our understanding of this country's past ' I've… read more
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30. Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
By: Johny Pitts
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A cont… read more
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"It's not terrorism when white people plot organised murders in the name of an extreme ideology."-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"Those unemployed black men I saw loitering all over Europe weren’t inherently lazy, but lost and low on confidence and opportunities, and their crime was that they were visible, unlike the black staf…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"For most black people in Europe, the battle against prejudice is for life, which is why you have to pace yourself to run a marathon instead of exerting all your energy in a spring if you want to surv…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
31. Keisha the Sket
By: Jade LB
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Where were you when Keisha the Sket first broke the internet? Keisha is a girl from the ends, sh… read more
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