Before I start, let me tell you that running has changed my life. In so, so many ways. Such as? Well, one of them being that winning a book called “Fixing your feet’ in a competition organised by a local Delhi running group made me as pleased as punch. Because …
The 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 recognising names and places. This …
Of all the delightful novels in the Mary Russell series, Laurie R. King’s “A Letter of Mary” is perhaps the most tender and romantic, bordering at times on sensuous. In this book, we see at work the love that unites the young, clever, courageous Mary Russell and her much older, …
