How to Kill a Billionaire – Book Extract
A superb legal thriller novel How to Kill a Billionaire (Juggernaut) by a lawyer, UN legal affairs officer and writer Rajesh Talwar takes you behind... Read More
Reimagining India through pages of history
Design professional Ratul Chakraborty’s historical fiction ‘Sutradhar’ is a dramatized retelling of events, myths and legends set across the arc of Indian... Read More
100-year-old tale of lust and exploitation
‘An Educated Woman in Prostitution’ by Manada Devi is a lost Bengali classic in the lines of well-known novels/ cinema like Umrao Jan Ada, Pyaasa,... Read More
Two volumes of Patrice Gueniffey’s ‘Bonaparte’, still less
This biography is more lucid in explaining the Corsican historical milieu; family background, early life and the fiasco of the Egyptian interlude from the standpoint of Bonaparte himself
More on life…
Arlene Heyman, in her book of short stories, ‘Scary Old Sex’ dwells deeper into the minds of people, prying open their thoughts on relationships and the role of sex within the complexities of human relations
The other side of the last queen of India
The book ‘The Last Queen of India’ by Michelle Moran narrates the most popular history of Rani Lakshmi Bai in a new light
