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Gabriel Gbadamosi reviews ‘There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra’ by Chinua Achebe and ‘In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir’ by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Helon Habila reviews Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo

Arifa Akbar reviews Marriage Material by  Sathnam Sanghera

Selma Dabbagh reviews A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie

Birthday Issue Launch, Schools Project: New Generations and Exclusive New Fiction To mark this special year, we commissioned new work for a special Birthday issue which was – quite literally – launched on board a boat on 21 September when passengers on the William B were treated to readings by write…

To celebrate the magazine’s 30th birthday, Wasafiri has been looking forward, working with a group of young students who may become tomorrow’s writers, journalists and editors, on a schools publishing project. In collaboration with Eastside Educational Trust, Wasafiri launched the project in October…

Natasha Soobramanien Seldom Seen, by Sarah Ridgard Hutchinson, London, 2012, hbk, 256pp, £14.99, 9780091944124, www.randomhouse.co.uk Set in Suffolk in the 1980s, this wonderful novel is about how our secrets shape us. Shy teenager Desiree White becomes a village celebrity when she finds a dead baby…

Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude topped the list of books that have most shaped world literature over the last twenty-five years, according to a survey of international writers specially commissioned by Wasafiri as part of its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2009. The…

Toby Litt Building Stories, by Chris Ware Jonathan Cape, London, 2012, hbk, 246pp, £30, 9780224078122 www.vintage-books.co.uk Chris Ware must get fairly bored with being called a genius. But I can’t help it – I get more emotion from a single panel of Ware’s than I do out of many entire novels. His B…