Penguin – Compilation I’m a few years late in reading this, so it’s no longer ‘new’ writing. But that doesn’t take away much from a decent collection of fiction and non-fiction. A book which can be read from both ends (Fiction and Non fiction start from opposite ends) and consists of 17 works of fiction […]
Anita Nair This is Anita Nair’s first novel, and quite a good start. I could identify with it quite a bit, probably because of the Kerala setting, and therefore the familiarity with the kind of characters that appear in the background. Having said that, the protagonist is quite a universal character. Mukundan, a retired government […]
Jeffrey Archer Every time I start an Archer book, I expect to be entertained and to be made to think, and it always happens so. This one is no different. I simply loved the humour that Archer retains throughout the book. But it is a bit different in on another front. It is based on […]
Colleen Mc Cullough Quite a superb sequel to “The First Man in Rome” with an expanded set of characters and perhaps a canvass larger than its predecessor. Centered around the war against Italia, the growing rift between two towering personalities and former friends, and the depths to which a person’s ego can lead him, this […]
Shashi Tharoor This is a collection of Shashi Tharoor’s early works.. really early 🙂 It has 14 stories and a two act play. While they are not of the fantastic quality of say, The Great Indian novel, it definitely shows the class of the author, who even during school and college days, displayed an affection […]