Gubek's poetry reflects the intersecting experiences of his Southern Sudanese background, experience of diaspora life in America, his blindness and Christian beliefs. xii, 63pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

New edition of the author's first collection of short stories illuminates the subtleties of the Muslim immigrant experience in Britain, describing comic culture clashes and deep spiritual struggles. Includes the Caine Prize winning story The Museum. 164pp, UK. POLYGON.

In Liverpool, in 1958, a German refugee and inventor Ernst Frager is in search of a sense of belonging. What he finds is an unusual nightclub on the Mersyside docks, and Miranda: hat-check girl, aspiring jazz singer and daughter of West Indian immigrants. Their doomed love affir will have repercussions for the children waiting for Ernst back in London, but also for the daughter Miranda gives birth to. Almost half a century later, Jade finds herself grappling with the very questions that drove her father into the arms of her mother, and realising that a successful career cannot define an identity; nor can you separate your existence from all the many other stories connected to it. 208pp, UK. CHATTO & WINDUS.

Set in 1950s Sudan, this is the story of the powerful and sprawling Abuzied dynasty. With Mahmood Bey at its helm, the family can do no wrong. But when Mahmood's son, Nur - the brilliant, charming heir to his business empire - suffers a near-fatal accident, his hopes of university and a glittering future are dashed. Subsequently, his betrothal to his cousin and sweetheart, Soraya is broken off, another tragedy that he is almost unable to bear. As British rule is coming to an end, and the country is torn between modernising influences and the call of traditions past, the family is divided. Mahmood's second wife, Nabilah, longs to return to Egypt and leave behind her the dust of 'backward-looking' Sudan. His first wife, Waheeba, lives traditionally behind veils and closed doors and resents Nabilah's influence on Mahmood. Meanwhile, Nur must find a way to live again in the world and find peace. Moving from the villages of Sudan to cosmo-politan Cairo and a decimated post-colonial Britain, this is a sweeping tale of loss, faith and reconcilia-tion. 320pp, UK. WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON.

Now in paperback. Explores the alienation of Najwa, a young, upperclass Sudanese woman, both within her life in Khartoum and also once she arrives in Britain, with the shock of changing circumstances and culture. Exploring and deepening her Muslim faith and practice brings its own invisibility also. Beautifully written novel by the award-winning writer. 277pp, UK. BLOOMSBURY.

Poems in English and Arabic by the Sudanese journalist and founder of the website SUDANESE INK. Translated by Sarah Maguire and Sabry Hafez. 31pp, UK. ENITHARMON PRESS.

Set in Darfur, Western Sudan this novel tells the story of Mogga and Leila, two people working for a European aid agency who become caught up in an African crisis. As the country teeters on the edge of famine and civil war, Mogga and Leila are left with stark choices as their European colleagues begin to leave the country. Map, 292pp, UK. POLYGON.

New edition with an introduction by Wail S. Hassan. The narrator returns from his studies in England to his remote little village in Sudan, to begin his career as an educator. There he encounters Mustafa, a fascinating man of mystery, who also has studied at Oxford. As their relationship builds on this commonality, Mustafa reveals his past. A series of compulsive liaisons with English women who were similarly infatuated with the Black Englishman, as he was nicknamed, have ended in disaster. Charged with the passion killing of his last paramour, Mustafa was acquitted by the English courts. As he unravels his complicated, gory and erotic story, Mustafa charges the listener with the custody of his present life. 159pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN CLASSICS.

Now available in a Penguin Classics edition. Sudanese writer born in 1929, Salih's fiction assesses the impact of the colonial encounter on the physical and psychological self through his characters who embody different values of assimilation and resistance. 169pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

Set in Southern Sudan against the backdrop of the fifty year civil war that raged against the government in Khartoum, this is the post-traumatic account of a naive young doctor, Maria, who finds herself trapped in a stricken desert world of disease, starvation, boy poets, jaded aid workers and rebel commanders in pink dressing gowns. And when tragedy does strike, it surpasses even her worst expectations. 250pp, UK. REPORTAGE PRESS.

A sustained analysis of all of Tayeb Salih's fiction that constitutes a single narrative cycle, focusing on the clash of Arab ideologies with questions of tradition, modernity, imperialism and gender. The author uses critical methodologies including postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and Sufism and places Salih's work within his comparative context. Index, refs, app, xviii, 199pp, UK. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0815630379

New edition of the Orange Prize longlisted novel. Set in Scotland with the chief protagonists a Sudanese widow working as an Arabic translator and a divorced Scottish academic, it explores themes of exile, loss, and love. 202pp, UK. POLYGON.

Heineman edition. Set in Scotland with the chief protagonists a Sudanese widow working as an Arabic translator and a divorced Scottish academic, this novel explores themes of exile, loss, and love. The author won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2000. 203pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Yasin is a middle aged man driving through Europe with his son, trying to explain who he is and where he is from. Born in the Sudan to an English mother and an Arab father, he has two passports, but no national identity. The novel follows him through Germany to Paris and then Spain, to find his lost brother, reflecting on the tragic comic ironies of his displace life. 346pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Latest novel by the best-selling author. In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by the charismatic Madhi. The British intervene to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. British usinessman, Ryder Courtney is trapped in Khartoum, where he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars, as well as the British Consul, David Benbrook and his three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum, in which British General Charles George Gordon is killed and the British retreat, these three powerful men fight to survive. Gloss, 629pp, UK. PAN.