(Image Credit: Viking) A novel decreed to be ‘unpublishable’ by its own author and remorselessly delegated to the confines of obscurity. “This book doesn’t work. It must be destroyed,” opined Gabriel Garcia Marquez on his last and almost abandoned novel. A decade following the demise of the Nobel Laureate, Until August has been resurrected by … Continue reading Until August – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the world’s most dangerous sporting expeditions involves maneuvering an approximately 798-kilogram car primarily manufactured using carbon fibre and similar ultra-lightweight materials, hurtling it at mad speeds of 200 mph down long straight lines, while at the same time avoiding perilous and possibly fatal contacts with the barricades and walls fencing the automobile circuit, … Continue reading The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport – Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) What’s with these Scandinavian authors and a preternatural ability to craft a story? Popular thriller writer Hildur Knútsdóttir produces an astonishingly gripping plot in her latest offering The Night Guest. Conjuring up the most horrid of stories, and yet treading the path of alluring sophistication and simplicity, Knútsdóttir comes up triumphant in … Continue reading The Night Guest – Hildur Knútsdóttir