Book Reviews

This a list of books received at our office; a selection of these titles will be reviewed in one of the future issues of Wasafiri. If you are interested in reviewing one or two of these titles (in 900 - 1200 words), contact the reviews editor. Please mention which title/s you would like to review; also include a recent sample of your writing (preferably a book review), as well as a short CV, your affiliation and contact details.

	Dreams That Spell The Light Shanta Acharya Arc Publications, Todmorden, 2010, pb ISBN 1 9046 1461 6		Lahore with Love: Growing up With Girlfriends, Pakistani-style Fawzia Afzal-Khan Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2010, pb ISBN 0 8156 0924 7
	The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood Pat Boran Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2009, pb ISBN 1 9066 1415 7		The Moon is Following Me Cecil Browne Matador, Leicester, 2010, pb ISBN 1 8487 6279 4
	Vermillion Clouds: A Century of Women's Stories from Bengal Radha Chakravarty, ed. Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2010, pb ISBN 8 1889 6551 0		Narrative Shape-Shifting: Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B Kojo Laing, Yvonne Vera Arlene A. Elder James Currey, Suffolk, 2009 , hb ISBN 1 8470 1012 4
	Alex la Guma: A Literary & Political Biography Roger Field James Currey, Suffolk, 2010, hb ISBN 1 8470 1017 9		Romance, Diaspora and Black Atlantic Literature Yogita Goyal Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010, hb ISBN 0 5217 6359 2
	Building Britannia Roxy Harris and Sarah White, eds. New Beacon Books, London, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8732 0116 9		Wilting Laughter: Three Tamil Poets Chelva Kanaganayakam, ed. TSAR Publications, Toronto, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8947 7059 0
	To Love a Palestinian Woman: Poems in English and Arabic Ehab Lotayef TSAR Publications, Toronto, 2010, pb ISBN 1 8947 7055 2		The Last Warner Woman Kei Miller Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2010, pb ISBN 0 2978 6077 8
	Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation Patricia Mohammed Macmillan Education, Oxford, 2009, pb ISBN 0 2300 1249 3		Hair Power - Skin Revolution: A Collection of poems and personal essays by black and mixed-race women Nicole Moore, ed. Matador, Leicester, 2010, pb ISBN 1 8487 6393 7
	Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading Brendon Nichols Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, 2010, hb ISBN 0 7546 5825 2		Christopher Okigbo 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight Obi Nwakanma James Currey, Suffolk, 2010, hb ISBN 1 8470 1013 1
	I Have Crossed an Ocean Grace Nichols Bloodaxe, Tarset, 2010, pb ISBN 1 8522 4858 1		Tales of Freedom Ben Okri Rider, London, 2010, pb ISBN 1 8460 4159 4
	In the Falling Snow Caryl Phillips Harvill Secker, London, 2009, hb ISBN 8465 5306 6		Edward Seaga: My Life and Leadership, Volume 1 Clash of Ideologies 1930 - 1980 Edward Seaga Macmillan Education, Oxford, 2009, hb ISBN 0 2300 2163 1
	Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory, Interpretation and the Novel Eli Park Sorensen Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, hb ISBN 0 2302 5262 2		Kipling's Children's Literature: Language, Identity, and Constructions of Childhood Sue Walsh Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, 2010, hb ISBN 0 7546 5596 1