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 …
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 …
“Kipling Sahib” by Charles Allen is a well-written, well-researched, fascinating look into the Indian part of Rudyard Kipling’s life, those relatively few years he spent in India, but which marked him for life. And for literature. Charles Allen brings to this book all the detailed yet seemingly relaxed research of …
What a pleasure to discover a whole new genre of fiction, even though the rest of the world has seemingly known about it for years. Meet Mary Russell, the fictional wife of the equally fictional Sherlock Holmes. Miss Russell has to be one of the most charming derring-do heroines a …
