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