The fifth instalment in the excellent Perveen Mistry series sees our feisty, intelligent, eminently likeable heroine introduced to the world of films. Today, Bollywood is a widely recognised genre (& word), but back in 1922, films were a relatively new phenomenon, arousing some suspicion. It was a world that spoke …
Mr. Khan presents the reader with a thought-provoking dilemma in the opening pages of this novel. In the immediate aftermath of India’s independence from the colonial rule of the British, can a white British man get justice from an Indian court? This dilemma – justice for the hated former colonial …
This book is a smashing follow-up to the wonderful “Midnight at Malabar House” which introduced us to the feisty Persis Wadia, India’s first female detective. “The Dying Day” is every bit as engaging and clever and if, by a strange oversight, you were not immediately a die-hard Persis fan after …
The third in the delightful Parveen Mistry series takes us into the heart of early 1920s Bombay, as the emerging Indian independence movement sees protests and riots over the visit of the Prince of Wales and the future colonial ruler. It is an inspired choice by Ms Massey to make …
As though the fabulously creative and loveable Baby Ganesh series were not enough, the talented Vaseem Khan has now given us yet another wonderful Indian detective, and I am already a huge fan. Introducing Inspector Persis Wadia, India’s first woman detective. We are in Bombay, in the tumultuous, heady days …
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I was so looking forward to reading and reviewing this book. I have read one of Mr. Sanghi’s books (click here for the link to my review of The Krishna Key) but to my shame (well, I imagine it is to my shame…) I …
Re-reading “The Perfect Murder” was every bit as delightful the 3rd time round, as it was the first. Yes, of course I knew whodunnit, but the writing and the scene setting and the use of language in the book are all so delicious that you read it as much for …
After a bout of reading good but rather heavy book club books, I felt like some mental time out. But, for no particular reason, I wanted Indian mental time out, and so it was with a feeling of great relaxation that I re-read H.R.F Keating’s “The Sheriff of Bombay.” I …
There have been few books that have moved me as much as this extraordinary book by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist Katherine Boo. It is a stunning read, and one that every thinking Indian should read – well, not just Indians, everyone who has a heart and a conscience should …
