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This is the latest list of books received at our office; a selection of these titles will be reviewed in one of the future issues of Wasafiri

Books Received: Issue 54

 

The Anglo-Arab Encounter: Fiction and Autobiography by Writers in English
Geoffrey Nash
Peter Lang, Bern, 2007, pb
215pp  ISBN 3 0391 1026 1 

Bloodshot Monochrome
Patience Agbabi
Canongate, Edinburgh, 2008, pb
77pp  ISBN 1 8476 7153 0  £8.99

The Writing Circle
Rozena Maart
Tsar, Toronto, 2007, pb
208pp  ISBN 1 8947 7037 8  $20.95

Molly and the Muslim Stick
David Dabydeen
Macmillan Caribbean, Oxford, 2008, pb
184pp  ISBN 0 2300 2870 8  £5.15

Bellas Gate Boy
Trevor Rhone
Macmillan Caribbean, Oxford, 2008, pb
56pp  ISBN 1 4050 3116 5  £5.95

Trouble Tree
John Hill Porter
Macmillan Caribbean, Oxford, 2008, pb
336pp  ISBN 1 4050 7105 5  £5.70

Rum Justice
Jolien Harmsen
Macmillan Caribbean, Oxford, 2008, pb
392pp  ISBN 1 4050 9905 9  £6.70

Carpentaria
Alexis Wright
Constable, London, 2008, hb
438pp  ISBN 1 8452 9721 3  £16.99

 

 


 

On the Road to Damascus and Other Poems
Katrice Williams
Stabilized Mindz, Stanford, 2008, pb
64pp  ISBN 0 6151 9239 0

The Dirty South
Alex Wheatle
Serpent’s Tail, London, 2008, pb
214pp  ISBN 1 8524 2985 0  £9.99

Pilgrim State
Jacqueline Walker
Sceptre, London, 2008, hb
257pp  ISBN 0 3409 6078 3  £14.99

Poetic Licence
Mike Alfred
Botsotso, Braamfontein, 2007, pb
87pp  ISBN 0 6203 8520 0 

Collected Poems
Isabella Motadinyane
Botsotso, Braamfontein, 2007, pb
79pp  ISBN 0 6203 8326 7 

Bu Me Be: Proverbs of the Akans
Peggy Appiah, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Ivor Agyeman-Duah
Ayebia, Banbury, 2007, hb
312pp  ISBN 0 9555 0792 2  £18.99

The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975
Lauri Ramey, ed (in consultation with Paul Breman)
Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, hb
388pp  ISBN 0 7546 5782 8  £55.00


 



If you are interested in reviewing two of these titles (in 1,000 to 1,500 words), contact the reviews editor, Mark Stein. 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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