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(Image Credit: Daunt Books Originals) “Look Here” is a candid, studied and panegyric tribute to a city that pulsates unceasingly and is a…
(Image Credit: cornerstonebooks.org.uk) With studied contributions from twenty-one writers and two visual artists, Antlers of Water, is an assemblage of specially commissioned writing…
(Image Credit: Londonreviewbooks.co.uk) A wistful throwback to uncomplicated times, Elif Shafak’ s cross between a tract and a reflective novella, is a plea…
(Image: http://www.goodreads.com) While having a 11-year-old niece is a blessed advantage, being in constant touch with an eleven-year-old niece who is an inveterate…
(Image Credit: Penguin Books) Little Billy keeps forlornly looking out his window at the woods beyond, day after day after day. The vast…
(Image Credit: Penguin.com) Greg Heffley, a teenaged boy is sandwiched at home between his three-year-old brother Manny, who has an uncanny knack for…
(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) With exquisitely aesthetic illustrations by Ruby Taylor, “Freddie Mercury” by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, is a breezy introduction to the…
(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) 172338. A number not just tattooed on the skin of a human being, but a travesty indelibly seared in living…
(Image Credit: Kalachuvadu Publications) First published in 1970, Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (“Certain Human Beings in Certain Times), not only won Jayakanthan a…
(Image Credit: Vanathi Pathippakam) A compendium of short stories, written in the thirties (with the exception of the concluding story that was penned…