Calendar Girl by Audrey Carlan
In a TV feature on her, when Audrey Carlan mentioned that E.L. James was her inspiration for the Calendar Girl series I was intrigued. I did a search and liked … Continue reading
Bullets and Bylines by Shyam Bhatia
Shyam Bhatia is a foreign correspondent currently living in London. He has operated and reported out of Cairo, Beirut, Jerusalem and Washington DC. He has been the Middle East correspondent … Continue reading
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
“In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to … Continue reading
What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera
“Framed in an airplane window, it lies below us, its palm trees waving goodbye, its long white beaches like lit crystal, its bustle and boom forgotten. It turns smaller and … Continue reading
On the Rocks, A Dana Cohen Mystery by Rebecca Marks, reviewed by Ines Rodrigues
On the Rocks is the first volume of the Dana Cohen mystery series, released last November. The main character, a strong and beautiful female police detective in her 40’s, decides … Continue reading
A Tiny Bit of Marvellous by Dawn French, reviewed by Reshma Kothare
There was something about the book cover that made my hand reach for it and comments like “Extremely funny” and “Fantastic slam-dunk page-turner” sealed the deal for me. This book … Continue reading
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
Beatriz Yagoda, the famous Brazilian writer goes missing. She was last seen sitting on an almond tree with a cigar, a book and her suitcase. Her American translator Emma Neufeld … Continue reading
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich (The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster) reviewed by Panchalee Thakur
This April it would be 30 years since a nuclear disaster had struck Chernobyl, a nuclear plant in Pripyat in Ukraine, which was part of the Soviet Union at that … Continue reading
Suraya’s Gift: The Story Catcher Children by Malavika Nataraj
“As more stories are added in, the spiderweb gets bigger and bigger and bigger until it forms an invisible blanket that covers every city and town, every village and every … Continue reading
Confessions of a Falling Woman by Debra Dean
An interesting collection of ten short stories of diverse situations with one commonality; each story explores the turning point in the lives of its protagonists. In The Best Man, Mike … Continue reading
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