Review - Moustache by S. Hareesh, Translated by Jayasree Kalathil
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Titile - Moustache Author - S. Hareesh Trasnlator - Jayasree Kalathil Publisher - Harpercollins India Pages - 360 Blurb - 'A novel of epic dimensions ... easily among the most accomplished fictional works in Malayalam.' K. SATCHIDANANDAN Vavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in a musical drama. The character appears in only two scenes and has no dialogue. However, Vavachan's performance, and his moustache, terrify the mostly upper-caste audience, reviving in them memories of characters of Dalit power, such as Ravanan. Afterwa ..read more
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Review - Future Tense by Nitasha Kaul
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Titile - Future Tense Author - NItasha Kaul Publisher - Harpercollins India Pages - 308 Blurb - The son of a former militant, Fayaz is an aimless bureaucrat whose marriage to his wife Zeenat has broken down. His nephew Imran is a young student, a misfit in Srinagar, hoping to join a new kind of spectacular resistance. Shireen, the granddaughter of a spy, discovers how her painful and divisive family story is deeply intertwined with the history of Kashmir. The paths of these characters intersect and diverge in Nitasha Kaul's tour de force novel Future Tense, which traces the competi ..read more
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Review - Where Do You Go in the Dark, My Love? by Isha Singh
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Title - Where Do You Go in the Dark, My Love? Author - Isha Singh Publisher - HarperCollins Pages - 176 Blurb: Your understanding of the occult is about to change. There are no vampires here, no werewolves. These are stories of life interrupted by forces unknown: energy flowing dark and silent from unspoken fears, repressed desires and small-town secrets. Set in hauntingly beautiful hill-stations, the sleepy lanes of Lucknow and breath-taking Rishikesh, these stories explore cities and the characters they coil around: whether it is a waiter disillusioned with the world around him ..read more
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Review - My Little Epiphanies by Aisha Choudhary
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Title: My Little Epiphanies Author: Aisha Choudhary Publisher:  Bloomsbury Pages: 84 Blrub: Aisha Chaudhary was born with S.C.I.D (severe combined immune deficiency) and underwent a bone-marrow transplant when she was six months old. She lived in New Delhi, where she was born. The year 2014 was brutal for Aisha as her disease progressed, and her lungs started giving up on her. The last few months of the year felt like a roller-coaster ride, one that seemed to be mostly going down. Spending almost all her time lying in bed, Aisha wrote down her thoughts to get some relief, to get th ..read more
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Review - The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie
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Title - The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural Author - Agatha Christie Publisher - HarperCollins Pages - 368 Blurb - From the Queen of crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume. ‘From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream – such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It died away with a horrible kind of gurgle. Then there came the thud of a body falling…’ for lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling tales from Agatha Christie. Acknowled ..read more
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Review - A Ticklish Affair and Other Stories by Sunil Kapoor and Sudhir Kapoor
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Title -  A Ticklish Affair and Other Stories Authors - Sunil Kapoor and Sudhir Kapoor Publisher - Rupa Publications Pages - 224 Blurb -  A man is blackmailed for a past he never had. An unrequited love story binds two lovers. A man waits for his lover, only to be killed at her hands. A girl takes back her life from her tormentor. From the bestselling authors of the peacock feather comes another delightful offering, ticklish affair. This collection of short stories has all the ingredients of an unputdownable book. Taken from the daily rigmarole of ordinary life, The stories are gi ..read more
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Review - Postscript by Cecelia Ahern
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Title:  Postscript Author:  Cecelia Ahern Publisher:  Harpercollins Pages: 400 Blurb:  We desperately need your help Holly. Were running out of ideas and…’ she takes a breath in as if Summoning the energy, ‘all of us are running out of time.’ when Holly Kennedy is approached by a group calling themselves the PS, I love you club, her safe existence is turned on its head. Inspired by hearing about her late husband gerry’s letters, the club wants Holly to help them with their own parting messages for their loved ones to discover after they've gone. Holly is sure of one thing – no wa ..read more
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Review - First Love by Sheeja Jose
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Title : First Love Author : Sheeja Jose Publisher :  Fingerprint! Pages : 272 Blrub : Tina is seventeen. Wonderful! Fell in love at thirteen. Amazing! She is no longer a virgin. So cool! But she is still in love with her first love. To say that Tina has the perfect love story will be no exaggeration. But her love loves her back only in her dreams. In real life, he is busy skirt-chasing every single girl except her. Years pass, and Tina finds it impossible to get over him. She is determined to make her first love her last, even if she gets hurt again and again. Will Tina get the hap ..read more
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Review - Operation X by Captain M.N.R Samant & Sandeep Unnithan
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Title - Operation X Authors - Captain M.N.R Samant & Sandeep Unnithan Publisher - Harpercollins Pages - 256 Blurb - In April 1971, the Indian Navy's Directorate of Naval Intelligence set up a covert maritime warfare unit - Naval Commando Operations (X) (NCO[X]). This black unit's existence was known to very few even within the navy. Its covert operation aimed at disrupting the maritime commerce lines that sustained the Pakistan Army in its eastern province.  Over the next few months, this irregular unit, comprising Indian naval officers, divers, and former Pakistani submariners ..read more
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Review - Sidney Sheldon's The Phoenix by Tilly Bagshawe
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Title: The Phoenix Author: Tilly Bagshawe Publisher:  HarperCollins Pages: 400 Blurb: Thrilling and nail-biting, the Phoenix has all the trademark glamour, suspense and unexpected twists of a classic Sidney Sheldon novel. A deadly enemy will rise again… Ella praeger has always felt like an outsider. So when she is called to join the ranks of the group, a force for good operating in the shadows, her world shifts. She is gifted a purpose – and a dangerous legacy. Years ago, the group rid the world of one of its most powerful criminal masterminds. Yet when a child washes up on a beach ..read more
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