 | The Healers (African Writers Series) by Ayi Kwei Armah
Buy used from: £4.25 A tale of mythic proportions set among The Healers of Ghana.
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 | Two Thousand Seasons (African Writers Series) by Ayi Kwei Armah
Buy used from: £14.17 "Life before the deserts became deserts." Pure, poetic, genius.
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 | Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World's Classics) by Daniel Defoe
Buy used from: £0.74 A metaphor for finding one's way through life...
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 | Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Wordsworth Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Forget the 'n' word. Delve into the depths of the Mississippi river.
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 | The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £5.94 Hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army - laugh out loud.
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 | Black Plays: Vol 3 (New Theatrescripts) (Play Anthologies)
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £15.93 Six essential plays by British authors; includes Paul Boakye's controversial Boy with Beer.
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 | No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South by Gary Younge
Buy used from: £13.33 Younge finds himself . Is he black, or British, or both?
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 | The Harder They Come: A Novel by Michael Thelwell
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £1.59 Country boy turned city slicker. Forget the film - brilliantly written.
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 | The Painted Canoe (Anthony C. Winkler Collection) by Anthony C. Winkler
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £2.68 An ugly Jamaican fisherman loses his way at sea. Wickedly funny!
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 | Just above My Head by James Baldwin
Buy used from: £1.89 Love and courage bind three extraordinary people across three decades.
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 | Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama (Diaries, Letters and Essays) by David Mamet
Buy used from: £20.99 Connecting art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script.
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 | A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet
Buy new: £12.09 / Used from: £4.20 Collected prose of one of America's most provocative playwrights.
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 | Invisible Man (Essential Penguin) by Ralph Ellison
Buy used from: £2.36 A young nameless black man moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness.
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 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Everything in which we find happiness and greatness, grief and humiliation.
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £5.49 The death of Beloved who died at her mother's hands and who will return to claim retribution.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £0.92 In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere.
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 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New Directions Paperbook) by T Williams
Buy used from: £4.94 The tragic lives of a guilt-ridden alcoholic, his sexually-frustrated wife, and a tyrannical patriarch are violently exposed in Williams' renowned play.
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 | Glengarry Glen Ross (Modern Plays) (Modern Classics) by David Mamet
Buy new: £7.84 / Used from: £1.68 Four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition.
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 | Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2007 (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £0.01 A vital tool for those who need to place their work.
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 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.33 The life and work of Malcolm X.
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 | Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood (Vintage classics) by Richard Wright
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.05 A reissue of Wright's 1945 autobiography about growing up in the Jim Crow South only one step away from slavery.
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 | Native Son (Vintage classics) by Richard Wright
Buy new: £6.27 / Used from: £2.45 The story of Bigger Thomas, a man who wages a war between himself and the outside white world.
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 | Jazz, Giants, and Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard
Buy used from: £35.18 Features Herman Leonard's full body of work, including portraits of Billie Holliday, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe.
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 | Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
Buy used from: £1.24 The incredible life story of jazz legend Billie Holiday.
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 | You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka
Buy used from: £3.46 Is it right to employ violence against a tyrannical government that itself relies heavily on violence?
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