Recommended Reading
Books mentioned in Across the Big Blue Sea
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, Fourth Estate 2013; Half of a Yellow Sun, Fourth Estate 2009; We Must All Be Feminists, Fourth Estate 2014.
- Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Interlink Books 2005.
- Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come To You By Chance, Hachette Digital 2009.
- Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking for Transwonderland, Granta Books, 2012.
- Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go, Penguin 2013.
- Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage 2010.
Books about Europe’s Refugee Crisis
- Dr. Pietro Bartolo: Tears of Salt (out in autunm 2017). The doctor of Lampedusa’s memoir has been published in Italian as ‘Lacrime di Sale’.
- Patrick Kingsley, The New Odyssey, Guardian Faber 2016.
- Emma Jane Kirby: The Optician of Lampedusa, Allen Lane 2016.
- Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Cast Away, Granta Books 2016.