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Cover of book by Fergus Nicoll (2018). Fully equal to the occasion: Frank Power and the Siege of Khartoum.This is SSSUK member Fergus Nicoll's  latest volume of primary sources relating to the Mahdia. It is available only through Amazon. It follows Nicoll's earlier editions of Lt.-Col. Stewart and Maj.-Gen. Gordon. Nicoll tells us that for future publication (research funds permitting) he has been working on editions of Burdeini and Nusshi, as well as a translation of the French transcript of an important Egyptian trial in the aftermath of the Mahdi's victory.

Book cover: <em>Abroma to Ziziphus and Beyond</em> by Mary Keenan