This eerily prescient book about a pandemic that shuts down London has a fascinating back story. Peter May wrote the novel in 2005, but it was rejected by publishers as being too unrealistic. So Mr. May put it in his Dropbox and moved on to other projects. It was only …
This enthralling book made perfect lockdown reading. Any personal, self-indulgent tendency to wallow in despair at the Coronavirus crisis swamping the world, could be put into some sort of context while reading this book. When the entire world was at war, when Hitler’s troops were planning a mass invasion of …
I first read this extraordinary book about the state of one of India’s most sacred rivers a year ago, and was bowled over by the research as well as the empathy the writer shows towards India. Although lamenting the damage done to the Ganga/Ganges – this most holy & revered …
