Book Name: The Mulberry Courtesan Author: Sikeena Karmali Publisher: Aleph Rating: 4.7/5 Book Blurb: In 1857, the shadows are falling thick and fast on what is left of the Mughal empire. The last emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, is a broken, bitter man…
Book Name: Just Tigers Author: Jim Corbett Publisher: Aleph Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Just Tigers brings together all Jim Corbett’s stories about shooting tigers, many of whom were man-eaters. Taken from Man-eaters of Kumaon, The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of…
Book Name: Yours Forever Author: Nimmu Publisher: Fingerprint Review: 3.8/5 Book Blurb: What happens when you fall in love with someone who has vowed to never love again? Sneha’s luck is cursed. What she had anticipated to be a joyous ride…
Book Name: INFIN-EIGHT: Eight Principles for Infinite Professional Success Author: Prajeet Budhale Publisher: Fingerprint Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: What is worse than not having the ability to bring success in one’s own life? It is having the ability and not being able…
Book Name: It’s My Girlfriend’s Wedding Author: Sahil Rajput Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Fiction Rating: 3.5/5 Book Blurb: Tall, rich and handsome, Vivan is the most sought-after bachelor. Recently returned from London, he is the one and only scion of Bakshi Group…
Book Name: Jugaad Yatra Author: Dean Nelson Publisher: Rupa Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: India’s Mangalyaan mission to Mars and the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, are two of the country’s most celebrated achievements in recent times. They have something in common…
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…