A collection of Somali poetry translated into English. 128pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0253304636

1993 Paperback

New, smaller format edition. A novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world. Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. War is on the horizon and the fascist Italian forces who control parts of east Africa are preparing for battle. Yet Jama cannot rest until he discovers whether his father, who has been absent from his life since he was a baby, is alive somewhere. And so begins an epic journey which will take Jama north through Djibouti, war-torn Eritrea and Sudan, to Egypt. And from there, aboard a ship transporting Jewish refugees just released from German concentration camp, across the seas to Britain and freedom. 288pp, UK. HARPERCOLLINS.

A novel in which the characters are deeply entwined in the waking nightmare of a police state. Farah tells the story of a man's combat with an elusive and cunning enemy in a society where there is no clear distinction between public and private justice. 237pp, USA. GRAYWOLF PRESS, 1555971628

Forty-four poems by the well-known Somali critic and scholar. 85pp, USA. RED SEA PRESS.

A collection of poetry in English by the Somali poet, coming to terms with the African condition and the human condition. 83pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

A new Penguin Classics edition of Farah's first novel. Ebla runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage. After her arrival in Mogadishu, her life remains hard as she is propelled through marriage, poverty and violence. Farah's novel savagely attacks the values which ennoble servitude and celebrates the human spirit. 182pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS, 0141187174

The second novel in Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy. Duniya is a single mother working in a hospital in Mogadiscio. When her rebellious daughter brings home a mysterious foundling infant and Duniya becomes involved in a romance her life becomes very complicated. Meanwhile, the hospital is overrun with people ravaged by war and drought, as well as relief organisations resented by the helpless Somalis. 246pp, USA. PENGUIN BOOKS USA.

The story of a Somali boy's passage to adulthood during the tumultous days of the fall of the Siad Barre dictatorship and the collapse into civil war. Gloss, 218pp, UK. HAAN ASSOCIATES PUBLISHING.

Now in paperback. The story of Jeebleh who returns to Mogadishu for the first time in twenty years, over the strong objections of his American wife and daughters. There he finds a decimated, divided city where U.S. troops have recently come and gone and Mogadishu is ruled by ruthless warlords. He travels to visit his other's grave and to find an abducted girl. This missing girl is known as the 'miracle child' who has brought a unique peace to her section of the city. Jeebleh is determined to cut through the city's layers of corruption a chaos to rescue the girl, and perhaps his own identity. 352pp, UK. DUCKWORTH.

When civil war erupts in Somalia, cousins Domenica Axad and Barni are separated and forced to flee the country. Barni manages to eke out a living in Rome, where she works as an obstetrician. Domenica wanders Europe in a painful attempt to reunite her broken family and come to terms with her past. After ten years, the two women reunite. When Domenica gives birth to a son, Barni, also known as Little Mother, is at her side. Together with the new baby, Domenica and Barni find their Somali roots and start to heal the pain they have suffered in war and exile. 264pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Somalia's best known writer: Born in Somalia in 1945 into a nomadic tradition and educated in India and the UK. Combining oral traditions with Somalian poetic devices, his novels are strikingly lyrical. This is Farah's sixth novel and is set during Ogaden War of 1977. It evokes thestruggles between personal, ethnic and national identities through the characters of Askar and his adopted mother, Misra, an Oromo from Ethiopia. 275pp, USA. PENGUIN USA.

A novel about Somalia's brutal civil war describing Hama's desperate flight from Mogadishu with her uncle, grandmother and pregnant mother. Gloss, 354pp, USA.1ST BOOKS LIBRARY, 1410794091

2003 Paperback

A woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and finds her efforts to instil her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive government and the traditions of conservative Islam. 263pp, USA. GRAYWOLF PRESS, 155597161X

Now available in paperback. Somalia, the week before the outbreak of a civil war: people are dealing with creaking social structures and a perverse state. The situation reveals past secrets, but what is the way to a better future? Winner of the Neustadt International Prize, 1998. 298pp, USA. PENGUIN BOOKS USA.

Anthology of writing by emerging British Somali writers. Their voices express their poignant experiences of being Somali, living in Britain and the issues that have affected them in their lives. 92pp, UK. MONSOON PRESS.

The author chronicles a man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces his quest to a passive and fatalistic level. 242pp, USA. GRAYWOLF PRESS.

Short stories dealing with the macabre reality of life in Somalia in the 1970s and 1980s. Photos, 114pp, FINLAND. HAAN.

A collection of fables, legends and folk stories. 128pp, USA. ABDI SHEIK-ABDI.

A novel of traditional pastoral life in Somalia, and of growing nationalism in the nearest town. I found myself thoroughly entranced...R de Lanerolle. Map, glossary, notes on transliteration of Somali words, 286pp, USA. ABDI SHEIK-ABDI.

Fictional story of a Yibir (outcast) family in Somalia. After an out-of-town trip on foot, Geeddi never returns home. Instead, his two children, Amina and Ali, are greeted with news of his death. His teenage daughter, Amina, assumes the role of parent to her nine-year-old brother. As Ali grows up he becomes an excellent student, but his private thoughts leave him frustrated and confused. He knows Yibirs are shunned by society, but doesn't understand why. The story of a boy searching for a role in a society determined to keep him out.153pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.