I was beyond excited to get my hands on a preview copy of the biography of the leading political figure in India. Living in Delhi, as I do, we hear and read about Sonia-ji (and Rahul-ji) day after day. Their every move is reported upon, usually in breathless, uncritical prose. …
Have you ever had That Moment when you see a book and say, “Oh, this sounds good. Who is this author? Never heard of him/her,” and everyone else in the room stares at you as though you were from the dark ages? I had one of these moments a couple …
“The House at Riverton” is a well-written, easy-to-read novel, based in and around Riverton, a grand English country house. From the hot summer of 1914, when the shadow of war starts to loom over an otherwise idyllic England, to an equally hot, post-war summer of 1924, through to the bleak, …
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, …
“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 …
