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A non-reader of romance, I picked up Love in the Time of Serial Killers as a beach read…
Arundhati Roy writes intimately of life with, and without, her mother
While reading Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes To Me, it is best to be armed with the author’s…
Ruminations between the co-founders of Brown Girl Bookshelf
In August 2020, friends Mishika Narula and Srisruthi Ramesh created Brown Girl Bookshelf (BGB), a platform and growing…
Lucy’s infatuation with Susannah escalates, very quickly, to a devastating love
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Death and war in Eric Ambler’s supremely stylish spy thriller, ‘Journey into Fear’
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Tara is missing. Her best friend Mansi sets out to retrace her days before she disappeared
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In 2025 Booker Prize-longlisted ‘Universality’, everyone’s politics is for sale
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A schoolboy’s skiing holiday goes horribly wrong in the 1995 novella, ‘Class Trip’
Narrated in the third person, Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère presents the perspective of Nicolas, a young boy…