The August recommendations for the Commonwealth Bookshelf from the Round Table Journal's Book Review Editor Terry Barringer. photo montage shows book and journal covers

Compiled by Terry A. Barringer

General

Sustaining Development in Small islands: climate change, geopolitical security and the permissive liberal order, by Matthew Louis Bishop and others, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 108 pp.

Caste: a global history, by Suraj Milend Yergde, London, Hurst, 2025, 360 pp.

Africa

Malaria on the Move: rural communities and public health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015, by Kundai Manamere, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2025, 217 pp.

In a Rain of Dust: death, deceit and the lawyer who busted big asbestos, by David Kinley, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025, 392 pp.

Zambia’s Youths and the 2021 General Election, by Emmanuel Matambo, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 212 pp.

Society, power and land in northern Zimbabwe, ca  1560–1960, by Admire Mseba, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2024, 224 pp.

Community-based Arts, Research and Activism in Uganda: we are Walukuba, by Jane Plastow and Kate McQuaid, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 232 pp.

The Lancaster House Conference and the Independence of Zimbabwe 1979, edited by Patrick Salmon and Richard Smith (Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series 3, Vol 14) London, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, 2025, 420 pp.

Donors, Democracy and Development in Africa: western aid and political repression, by Mark Simpson, Springer, 2024, 369pp.

Black Britain and Nelson Mandela: pulling the branch of a tree, edited by Elizabeth    M. Williams, London, Bloomsbury, 2024, 282 pp.

 Australasia

Military History Supremo: essays in honour of David Horner AM FASSAi, by Joan Beaumont and Garth Pratte, Canberra, ANU Press, 2025, xix + 400 pp. Free download.

Caribbean

Lost and Found: an A-Z of neglected writers of the Anglophone Caribbean, written and edited by Alison Donnell, Trafalgar, Dominica, Papillote Press, 2025, 326 pp.

Oil and Climate Change in Guyana’s Wet Neighbourhood, by Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, Kingston, Ian Randle, 2025, 426 pp.

Europe

Cyprus and the First World War, edited by Hubert Faustmann and Georgios Kazamias, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 240 pp.

Terry Barringer is the Book Review Editor of The Round Table Journal.

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