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'My book is not just about people thrown into a war where we watch them die. It is about people who have full lives and how war changes them'. The award winning author of Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, talks to Charlie Kimber about her new novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, set during the Biafran War.

Review of 'Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History', Paul Blackledge, Manchester University Press, £12.99

The crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan is once more in the news. George Clooney and US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) John Bolton formed a bizarre alliance to call for Western intervention into the crisis recently.

Review of 'The Music of Life', Denis Noble, OUP £12.99

Readers of this magazine will doubtless be familiar with the rampaging anti-Muslim bias which afflicts the media in the West. Unfortunately, the same attitudes are also rooted in large sections of the media in India - even those which pride themselves in being "secular" and "progressive".

Review of 'After The Storm', editor David Dante Troutt, The New Press £13.99

The fledgling left wing administration in Bolivia faces growing challenges to its programme of reforms.

Review of 'Paula Spencer', Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Cape £16.99

Kamil Mahdi interviewed

Review of 'The House That Trane Built', Ashley Kahn, Granta £20

Sometimes when advertisers stop attempting to sell us that brand of toilet paper or this brand of baked beans and apply their creative energies to a more needy and worthwhile cause they can produce stunning pieces of visual communication.

Review of 'For Bread Alone', Mohamed Choukri, Telegram £9.99