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- The Krishna Key by Ashwin SanghiIs it wrong and/or patronising to compare one writer to another (more famous) one ? I hope Mr. Sanghi won’t take it amiss if I say that his novel reads rather like a desi Dan Brown. History meets crime, ancient texts meet technology, with l...
- Kowloon Tong by Paul TherouxThe book had sat on my shelf, puzzingly unread, for 13 years. And then we went to Hong Kong on holiday and “Kowloon Tong” went along too. Reading a book about the place where you are staying is always fun, with the added piquancy of recog...
- TAMARIND CITY by BISHWANATH GHOSHon Sep 11, 2012 in 2012 Biography Fiction History Indian Authors Reviews Bishwanath Ghosh Chennai Delhi Madras Tamarind City TranquebarIt took me a while to settle into this book, but once I did – what a treat. “Tamarind City” is the story of a man’s discovery of the southern Indian city of Chennai (though lots of people still know it by its older name of Mad...
- THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by RACHEL JOYCEIt takes a certain kind of book to make you sit on a train, crying as you read. Rachel Joyce’s “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” is such a book. This is a novel that is everything a fabulous read shoud be. It is moving, inspiring, funny,...
- The Associate by JOHN GRISHAMon Aug 6, 2012 in 2009 Fiction Reviews Doubleday Jogn Grisham Kashmir Manhattan New York The AssociateIt’s been a few years since I read a John Grisham novel. Not by design, I hasten to add, but more by accident/many more book clubs books to read than I can decently keep up with (ooh, ugly sentence, that, ending with a preposition…) Anywa...
- POOR LITTLE RICH SLUM by Rashmi Bansal & Deepak Gandhion Jul 5, 2012 in 2012 Indian Authors Non Fiction Reviews Dee Gandhi Deepak Gandhi Delhi Dharavi Mumbai Rashmi Bansal Westland BooksFor a book covering such a potentially “difficult” subject as Mumbai’s Dharavi – reputedly Asia’s largest slum – “Poor little rich slum” is surprisingly easy to read. That has a lot to do with the way t...
- The Naga Queen by Vicky Thomas“The Naga Queen” by Vicky Thomas, a biography of Ursula Graham Bower, has recently been published by The History Press. When I reviewed Ms Graham Bower’s own wonderful book, “Naga Path” a couple of months ago, I began by...
- The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall SmithI have been an unconditional fan of Alexander McCall Smith ever since I bought a copy of “The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” in Gaborone airport, back in April 2001. We were stuck in Gabs for hours, verging on a day, on our way to t...
- The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino“The Devotion of Suspect X,” the cult Japanese thriller by Keigo Higashino has at long last been translated into English. This story of murder and its consequences, set in modern-day suburban Tokyo, is (in the words of all good book revie...
- The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimion May 15, 2012 in 2008 Fiction Afghanistan Atiq Rahimi French Kabul Paris Prix Goncourt Samuel Beckett The Patience StoneThis slim book, winner of the Prix Goncourt, and translated from French by Polly McLean, is extraordinary on every level. It is poetic, lyrical, moving, crude, tragic, sometimes funny in an earthy way, and absolutely engrossing. The plot is simple,...
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