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The Unending Game A Former R&AW Chiefs Insights into Espionage By Vikram SoodPenguin Random House India pp. 282 Rs 599

Espionage is much more than cloak and dagger ops

The Unending Game, the author writes, is not a personal memoir, nor is it about the organization for which I worked.

3 Aug 2018 1:22 AM IST

The World in a Wall

Durrell life's work and lasting legacy was in establishing the great zoo in the island of Jersey a part of the Channel...

3 Aug 2018 1:10 AM IST

In the future, Vish will be coming up with a book called Lipstick, which is a classic whodunit, and most readers would be clueless until the end.

Lacunae in legal system decoded

The author is widely recognized as the master of legal crime and courtroom drama in the country.

1 Aug 2018 12:40 AM IST

Michael Ondaatje

Ondaat beautiful prose

Author Michael Ondaatje, who won the Man Booker and the Golden Man Booker Prize, must be explored.

1 Aug 2018 12:40 AM IST

The Last Color by Vikas Khanna Bloomsbury, Rs 499

High on idealism, but weak on plot, dialogues

Choti grew up never feeling quite at home in the Nameless House with Pink Walls

29 July 2018 2:17 AM IST

A soldiers diary: Kargil, the inside story by Harinder Baweja Roli Books, Rs 395

I'll either come back after raising the Indian flag in victory or...

The chief of the Army, Gen. V.P. Malik, personally telephoned Vikram for their battalion's remarkable feat.

29 July 2018 2:08 AM IST

The novel, which begins with a sense of suspicion, plunges the readers headlong into a vortex of mystery.

Book Review: Vinaya Bhagat's The Trickster is a gripping tale of the...

Vinaya Bhagat's The Trickster takes readers on ride between realms of known, and unknown, merging myth with folklore and...

27 July 2018 8:06 PM IST

The Globetrotters Puffin Books, Penguin Random House, India pp.199, Rs 199

Wings beneath their feet!

She took two and a half months to complete the book. Once the idea struck her, her next step was to mould Hudhud and his...

27 July 2018 12:26 AM IST

The Glass House - A Year of Our days,Rupa Publications pp.200, Rs 295

The quest of that perfect home!

This former college lecturer's debut novel highlights an individual's quest to find a haven.

27 July 2018 12:25 AM IST

A breezy read, Obsessed, by Kokcha meanders amongst Greek concepts, love, lust, murder, mystery and a sense of hopelessness in life that is all too real.

Book Review: Obsessed; a tale of love gone all wrong

Ruchi Kokcha's novel Obsessed talks about sensitive issues, love, lust and a madwoman's aspirations.

23 July 2018 9:00 PM IST

Goodbye Freddie Mercury by Nadia Akbar Penguin Random House, Rs 599

Young, fun & marvellously irreverent

Goodbye Freddie Mercury is a truly enjoyable read young, fun and marvellously irreverent.

22 July 2018 1:54 AM IST

According to Priyanka, Bryan Adams had a certain daal-chaawal (humble) quality Bryan Adams/Courtesy: Guess, Inc.

Desi Girl's journey from Bareilly to New York

He was seen smiling and in a second everything he had put me through flashed through my mind.

22 July 2018 1:51 AM IST