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 two of these titles (in 1,000 to 1,500 words), contact the reviews editor. Please mention which titles 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.

	From the Ganga to the Tay Bashabi Fraser Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2009, pb 1 9063 0795 4		Sound of Turquoise Gill Gregory Kingston University Press, Kingston Upon Thames, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8999 9946 0
	Advice for Strays Justine Kilkerr Jonathan Cape, London, 2010, pb ISBN 0 2240 8766 7		The New Anthem: A Subcontinent in its Own Words Hussain Ahmede, ed Tranquebar, New Delhi, 2009, pb, ISBN 9 3800 3245 0
	Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature Françoise Král Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009, hb ISBN 0 2302 2041 6		The Debt-Collector and Other Stories Tanure Ojaide Africa World Press, Trenton and Asmara, 2009 , pb ISBN 1 5922 1693 5
	Spatial Politics in the Poscolonial Novel Sara Upstone Ashgate, Farnham, 2009, hb ISBN 0 7546 6552 6		Early Achebe Bernth Lindfors Africa World Press, Trenton and Asmara, 2009, pb ISBN 1 5922 1703 6
	Black Water Rising: A Novel Attica Locke Serpent's Tail, London, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8466 8729 7		Emerging Perspectives on Femi Osofisan Tunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola Africa World Press, Trenton and Asmara, 2009, pb ISBN 1 5922 1699 4
	The Voices of Time Kenrick Mose Macmillan Caribbean Writers, Oxford, 2009, pb ISBN 1 4050 6638 9		Joseph's Box Suhayl Saadi Two Ravens Press, Glasgow, 2009, pb ISBN 1 9061 2044 3
	Globetrotter and Hitler's Children Amatoritsero Ede Black Goat, New York, 2009, pb ISBN 1 9333 5477 4		Snapshots of Istanbul Jacqueline Bishop Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8452 3114 9
	A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction Frederick Luis Aldama University of Texas Press, Austin, 2009, hb ISBN 0 2927 1968 2		Lee Valley Poems Yan Lian Bloodaxe, Tarset, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8522 4834 5
	Leaving Fingerprints Imtiaz Dharker Bloodaxe, Tarset, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8522 4849 9		Crocodile Anthony C Winkler Macmillan Caribbean, Oxford, 2009, hb ISBN 1 4050 6373 9
	Hope's Hospice Kwame Dawes Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8462 3078 4		Approaching Sabbaths Jennifer Rahim Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8452 3115 6
	She Who Sleeps With Bones Tanya Shirley Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8452 3087 6		The Fullness of Everything Patricia Powell Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8452 3113 2
	Who's Your Daddy? And Other Stories Geoffrey Philp Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, pb ISBN 1 8452 3077 7		The Stone Gatherer Esther Phillips Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2009, pb ISBN 1 8452 3085 2