Bookend – Where reading meets review

Honesty dictates that I begin this review with a confession. This is a book ‘on writing’ unlike any that I have read till…

In this path breaking work that has stood the test of time for close to half a century now, theoretical physicist Fritjof Capra…

Eerie, taut and bleak, Andrew Michael’s Costa Award winning debut novel marks him out as an author of immediate reckoning. He had my…

Let’s face it – the Alain De Botton of the non fiction genre is a much more upholstered (deservedly) and embellished attraction than…

Easily the most engaging book on the malevolent Recession that shook the very edifice of the Global Financial and Economic Systems during the…

Alex Brummer chronicles in fascinating detail the excesses committed by unscrupulous and greedy bankers at the cost of the ordinary tax payer even…

The feeling that stems from a reading of Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu can at best be described as ambivalent. If you are looking…

The New York Times in showering encomiums on Kamila Shamsie’s “Home Fire” states, “Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes…

A listless, lacklustre, plain and unfortunately avoidable fare from one of the best purveyors of legal thrillers. “Camino Island” lacks the usual verve,…

The remarkable George Smiley is back again this time investigating the brutal murder of Stella Rode, the wife of a tutor in the…