Book Name: Voice of the Rain Season Author: Subrata Dasgupta Publisher: Fingerprint Rating: 4.1/5 Book Blurb: On a September Saturday afternoon in 2011, Martin Shawncross and Joya Bose in perfect synchrony surrendered their respective virginities. That Martin, a twenty-one-year-old American, had…
Book Name: Invisible Ties Author: Nadya A R Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4.7/5 Book Blurb: As Karachi burned in the 1990s, the painfully shy Noor Kamal found refuge in an antique jade mirror stolen from Daisy, her social butterfly mother. One fateful…
Book Name: The Shape of Water Authors: Guillermo Del Toro and Daniel Kraus Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: The most celebrated movie of the year is now the must-read novel of 2018. “[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in…
Book Name: Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle Author: Saifuddin Soz Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: In Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle, one of the most prominent voices of Kashmir, Saifuddin Soz takes a passionate…
Book Name: Great Textpectations Author: Ruchi Vadhera Publisher: Rupa Rating: 3/5 Book Blurb: Amaya Kapoor is a Delhi-based intellectually inclined thirty-five-year-old single, financially independent and sexually liberated woman, who wants to open a ‘boutique bookstore’ and live life on her own terms—single…
Book Name: Daughters of the Sun Author: Ira Mukhoty Publisher: Aleph Book Company Rating: DNF Book Blurb: In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women…
Book Name: Elephants in the Room Author: Suraj Laxminarayanan Genre: Fiction Publisher: The Write Place Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: A ragtag group of friends are planning a bank heist to end their cash crunch. Novices to crime, they are driven more by emotions…
Book Name: A Higher Loyalty Author: James Comey Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: A riveting inside account of life and leadership at the heart of the FBI and high office in the United States of America. Former FBI director…
Book Name: The Sensational Life And Death Of Qandeel Baloch Author: Sanam Maher Publisher: Aleph Rating: 4.7/5 Book Blurb: ‘Qandeel was a marvelous blaze. She set our dark world on fire and made enough light to expose the hypocrisies of…
Book Name: Keshava Author: Bhawana Somaaya Publisher: Fingerprint Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: Everyone associated with Sri Krishna believes that their relationship with the deity is unique, which explains why every gopika felt that the Lord was dancing with her at the Maharaas.…
Book Name: Indira Author: Devapriya Roy Illustrator: Priya Kuriyan Publisher: Westland Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: In a government school classroom in Delhi, young Indira Thapa is set an unusual assignment by her favourite teacher: to write an essay around her name. Who was…
Book Name: My Husband and Other Animals 2: The Wildlife Adventure Continues Author: Janaki Lenin Publisher: Westland Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: ‘We’ve lived here at Pambukudivanam for 20 years now and many are the trees we planted that you can’t put your…