Ten Books to Read This Valentine’s Day
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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
The Second Scarsdale Salon
This February we held our second Scarsdale Salon and were delighted by the big turnout that thursday evening;more than 80 people had attended the first Salon, and we weren’t sure … 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
Beloved Witch Returns by Ipsita Roy Chakraverti
“………Sometimes we love people without a cause. At first glance. It’s a feeling. A long buried vision which surfaces and is hard to explain or rationalise. Often, the opposite happens … Continue reading
Jonathan Unleashed by Meg Rosoff
‘My life is stuck and you’ve just got to do something to get yourself free. Anything.’…..from Jonathan Unleashed. Jonathan suffers from Weltschmerz and his work and love life cannot be worse than they already are. … Continue reading
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