Literary Studies in English : Starting out

"Based on a true event, The Fortune Men tells the intimate, harrowing story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death. In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer.

Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives and hopeless spinsters.

To Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, ...

"This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book aims to inspire critical readings of these writers' works by revealing emerging trends in women's literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration.

Makhosazana Xaba, with several collections and anthologies to her name, is at the forefront of a poetry that embraces penetrating socio-political insight with highly emotional responses to the love and pain that our country provides in such abundance.

The Polygamist weaves a tale of four women whose lives become intertwined when they all fall for wealthy banking magnate Jonasi. Seemingly indomitable, and oozing money, power and sex appeal, Jonasi is about to complicate all their lives forever.

Richard Dawkins has created a dazzling celebration of our planet with explanations of space, time, evolution and more, taking us on a journey through scientific reality. Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun.

"Leila has been in search of a wealthy husband for over a decade. Nadia moves to Dubai to support her husband's career, only to have her sacrifices thrown in her face. Sugar escapes the UK in an attempt to escape her past...

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of "situationships", players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as "The Wastemen of Whitewell," in front of every Blackwellian on campus, she finds her show on the brink...

Lily is making sure her wedding to Owen will be perfect. For one thing, she is seating Owen's dad from the Cape Flats far from her snobbish parents who keep insinuating that Owen is not good enough for her. But then Owen's ex Courtney shows up with her teenage daughter, Chiara, who could be his. And Owen seems happy at the prospect of being a dad. What happened to their decision to commit to love and marriage, but not the baby carriage? Is he changing his mind about children, about her? -- Publisher's description

Esma is a modern Muslim woman with an age-old dilemma. She is well-educated, well-traveled, and has excellent taste in music, but the hunt for Mr. Right leads her to a number of Mr. Wrongs. Together with wild-haired Ruby, principled Lisa, and drop-dead gorgeous Nirvana, Esma forms the No Sex in the City Club. Her quest for The One (or Mr. Almost-Perfect) was never going to be easy, but soon enough it takes an unexpected and thrilling detour.

"In this stunning debut novel, Esi, a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid political upheaval in postcolonial Ghana, begins to question the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society that surrounds her, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectations placed on women"

The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful.

Stunning collection of stories engaging with the nuance of African women's histories. "Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this sit between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage the nuance of African women's histories.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous in a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read.

A blackly funny piece of Lagos gothic about two women who claim to be the parent of the same baby... A literary sensation * Guardian, on MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER * Braithwaite is fiendishly talented * The Times, on MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER * A pure joy to read * Stylist, on MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER *

Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. Kiara and her older brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi.

Using examples from his own poetry, Donald Revell takes the writer beyond the workshop and into the world of vision. Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry.

Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck.

"Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.

Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn't be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility.

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits.

At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in London's East End.

A Poem is a Walk / A.R. Ammons -- The Impure Every Time / Marvin Bell -- Damage / Wendell Berry -- The Wrong Turning in American Poetry, What the Image Can Do / Robert Bly --

n Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume—all best-selling romance writers—explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances.

With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa’s dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in the footsteps of her astronomer father’s revolutionary work in Bantu geometries and Indigenous astronomie

aith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the beliefs her society and upbringing have inculcated in her.

This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university.

Iyanu, a teenage orphan with no recollection of her past, suddenly discovers that she has abilities that rival the ancient deities spoken of in the folklore of her people. It is these abilities that are the key to bringing back an "age of wonders," as Iyanu begins her journey to save a world on the brink of destruction!

In this revolutionary book, Dr Andrew Weil shows how the concept of spontaneous healing can change all our lives for the better.

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:

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

"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.

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.

"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.

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.