Literary Studies in English : Starting out

Blackass by A.Igoni Barrett Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster - except for one thing:

Wayward lifes, beautiful experiments by Saidiya Hartman At the dawn of the twentieth century, the first generation of black women born after emancipation wanted real freedom. Refusing to labour like slaves, they leapt into the unknown

The Absent Father Effect on Daughters by Susan E. Schwartz "This book investigates the impact of absent - physically or emotionally - and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology.

A Taste of Love by Sifa Gowan GOWON They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Yet in this delectable romance it is Toby, manager of cool hangout lounge, the Bar-Rage, who wins over feisty single mum and successful cake-maker Adoo Ibi with his tasty pizza. Not to mention his suave good looks and calm, confident demeanour.

What I'd rather not think about by jente posthuma By my twenty-seventh birthday, I owned 142 sweaters, and it was high time I saw a therapist.

I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro A "profound and soul-nourishing memoir" (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.

Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative by Sidney I. Dobrin This book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic

Citizen: an american lyric by Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media.

Queer Africa 2 by (ed) M.Xaba and K. Martin n Queer Africa 2: New Stories, the 26 stories by writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda and the USA present exciting and varied narratives on life.

The Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher.

Whole Earth by John Markoff Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart

James by Percival Everett 'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle

The butterfly room by Riley,Lucinda "Posy Montague is approaching her 70th birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision.

Ask a footballer: my guide to kicking a ball about by Milner,James Ever wondered what it's REALLY like to be a Premier League footballer? My name is James Milner and I'm not a Ribena-holic.