An Interview with Anita Anand, author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Anita Anand has been a radio and television journalist for almost twenty years. She is the presenter of ‘Any Answers’, the political phone-in on BBC Radio 4. She was a … Continue reading
We Are Afghan Women – Voices of Hope
Having read enough and more fiction, with Afghanistan as the central theme, I thought I knew all there was to know about what the country had endured. Add to that … Continue reading
The Curse of Damini by Debajani Mohanty
1945 – when many in pre-independence India had to make a choice between Gandhi’s ideology of nonviolence and Bose’s idea of snatching what was rightfully yours. The Curse of Damini starts … Continue reading
The Separation by Dinah Jefferies
What happens when a mother and her daughters are separated, and who do they become when they believe it might be forever? Dinah Jefferies writes beautifully!!! Her second novel The … Continue reading
We That Are Left by Clare Clark
“DENIQUE COELEM” is the family motto of the Melvilles of Ellinghurst. Translated it means ‘heaven at last’. Ellinghurst serves as the backdrop of Clare Clark’s period novel We That Are Left. With … Continue reading
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad
“It is said that the news of the world war reached Calicut along with the morning eggs….. The egg boy may have been told that rationing and shortages were expected, … Continue reading
The Children’s Train by Jana Zinser
The Children’s Train comes at a time when everyone has been talking about Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See. With books such as Doerr’s Pulitzer winner and others, like The Boy … Continue reading
Footprints in the Desert by Maha Akhtar
There can be nothing more heartbreaking than a storyline that fails to connect with the reader and with Footprints in the Desert, Maha Akhtar proves it. The blurb online, promises an … Continue reading
The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl
“It is the real power of a book—not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is … Continue reading
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