Month: July 2015

‘A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.’ […]

Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene’s work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head, […]

‘Quite extraordinary…Kostova is a natural storyteller…She has fashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner.’ (San Francisco Chronicle) Late one night, […]

The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert  Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As […]

An extraordinary achievement, Telling Times reflects the true spirit of the writer as a literary beacon, moral activist, and political visionary. The book represents the […]

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from […]

‘Temsula Ao’s memoir gently unfurls itself, much like some of her best short fiction. Her anecdotes are delightful and she has the knack of asking […]

‘Extraordinary…a book that spins gold out of the straw of ordinary lives.’ (The Times) Jhumpa Lahiri’s second offering, following her Pulitzer-winning collection of short stories, […]

Mahvish Rukhsana Khan‘s memoir My Guantánamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me chronicles her experiences as an Afghani-American law student who volunteered […]

In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years, letters passed […]