SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian - Top 10 books about Sudan

Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub ranks the top 10 English-language books about Sudan.

They are:

1. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

2. Prison Notebooks by Ibrahim al-Salahi

3. The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction edited by Ralph Cormack and Max Schmookler

4. The Grub Hunter by Amir Tag Elsir

5. The Sudan Handbook edited by John Ryle

6. Darfur: A New History of a Long War by Alex de Waal and Julie Flint

7. Bakhita by Veronique Olmi

8. Khartoum at Night; Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan by Marie Grace Brown

9. Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun

10. Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology edited by Adil Babikir