I was sent a copy of “Shoes of the Dead” and asked to review it, and so let me start this review by saying a big thank you to blogadda.com. Thanks to them I have just read a fabulous book, and have discovered Kota Neelima, an author who is an amazingly talented writer and story [...]
How many gushing adjectives can one use to describe a wonderful book? Amazing. Well written. Moving. Realistic. This book was all of these and more. All the time I was reading this book, I kept saying “yes,” simply because so much of it was so familiar. I live in India. This book would seem to [...]
Disclaimer – if indeed there is a need for one: I was sent this book by the publishers, and asked to review it. That’s it ! This début novel is an interesting read, which kept me involved until the end, as I read on with growing interest, keen to find out what happens, all [...]
What an enormously entertaining read “Tantra” is. Haven’t had so much good old-fashioned reading fun in years. Honestly. I am not into fantasy fiction, nor am I into vampires, and yet this book - which has them all in spades - kept me hooked until the rather puzzling end…I sense a sequel. Hurray! Meet the [...]
Perhaps I am taking this whole “lie” thing in the title too seriously, but I was a little torn as to whether or not to tell the truth in this review. Should I fib or not ? No, you’re right. No fibbing. Tell the truth, embarrassing as it is, which is as follows : This [...]
I read this sadly out of print book a year ago, when I visited Nagaland and became fascinated with the tale of Ursula Graham Bower. Ms Graham Bower’s “Naga Path” (that is a link to my review, obviously) covers her years in Nagaland, and “The Hidden Land” takes up the story. Ursula is now married [...]
Vikas Swarup, known for his hugely popular “Q & A”, the book behind the award winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” has just published his latest novel, and even without the Slumdog hype, this was always going to be a great book. It is always a little difficult to review a friend’s book, and Vikas is indeed [...]
The first day of a new year deserves something nice and new, and so the first novel by my friend Lakshmi Narayan fits the bill totally. Since I have known Lakshmi from our far-off Mumbai days, her début book “Bonsai Kitten” resonated on a personal level, but all readers will enjoy her Singapore story with [...]
Anne de Courcy’s book is a delightful account of that well-known colonial sport, husband-hunting in India. Quite. In a book that is well-written, informative, poignant and often times sad, Ms de Courcy tells us some of the stories of generations of young British women who went out to India to marry. Or not marry, [...]
The blurb on the cover of Ravi Subramanian’s 5th book “The Bankster” talks of “the John Grisham of banking”. Like John Grisham, Mr. Subramanian certainly knows his facts and figures in his appointed area of expertise, that’s for sure. So there is that much in common with Mr. Grisham. But what Mr. Subramanian desperately [...]