In this path breaking work that has stood the test of time for close to half a century now, theoretical physicist Fritjof Capra…
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Eerie, taut and bleak, Andrew Michael’s Costa Award winning debut novel marks him out as an author of immediate reckoning. He had my…
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Let’s face it – the Alain De Botton of the non fiction genre is a much more upholstered (deservedly) and embellished attraction than…
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson Jr.
Easily the most engaging book on the malevolent Recession that shook the very edifice of the Global Financial and Economic Systems during the…
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Bad Banks: Greed, Incompetence and the Next Global Crisis by Alex Brummer
Alex Brummer chronicles in fascinating detail the excesses committed by unscrupulous and greedy bankers at the cost of the ordinary tax payer even…
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GURKHA: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Kailash Limbu, Alexander Norman
The feeling that stems from a reading of Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu can at best be described as ambivalent. If you are looking…
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The New York Times in showering encomiums on Kamila Shamsie’s “Home Fire” states, “Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes…
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A listless, lacklustre, plain and unfortunately avoidable fare from one of the best purveyors of legal thrillers. “Camino Island” lacks the usual verve,…
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The remarkable George Smiley is back again this time investigating the brutal murder of Stella Rode, the wife of a tutor in the…
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My staple diet of spies has until now been catered to by a flood of Len Deightons, a stream of Jack Higgins and…