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Apocalypse New Delhi

Saturday 21 November '09

The new and thought-provoking SF from Ian McDonald, Cyberabad Days, is set in the India of 2047.
A Writer at Hotel Hastings

Saturday 31 October '09

The narrator of Paul Theroux’s new novel set in Calcutta is a writer suffering from that most painful of ailments, writer’s block.
Tot’s Tale

Saturday 17 October '09

A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 322 $25.95
Home truths

Friday 25 September '09

The Little Stranger Sarah Waters Virago 499 pages Rs 550
Home truths

Saturday 12 September '09

Hundreds Hall is the great house of the village. The Little Stranger, the new novel by Sarah Waters, opens with an Empire Day Fete.....
Fine print

Saturday 29 August '09

A rich and powerful collection from one of the best living writers of the short story....
Paint is Still Lilac

Sunday 19 July '09

This chick-lit heroine is not just about Manolos; she shops for modern art
A Woman in White

Sunday 5 July '09

A debut novel travels to a Tamil village at the turn of the 20th century where old codes of caste and gender crumble around a widow
Does War End?

Sunday 21 June '09

Fiction asks troubling questions of Sri Lanka
Beat Files

Sunday 7 June '09

A twenty-something crime reporter remaps Mumbai
Stuffed Olives

Sunday 24 May '09

A British PM, a football match, blackmail, bisexuality — it is a political martini
Lightness of Being

Sunday 3 May '09

Memories shot through with some philosophy
Water Worlds

Sunday 29 March '09

A boho journey from Venice to Varanasi
War Wounds

Sunday 15 March '09

A tale of loss and longing from Occupied France
Novel Sentences

Sunday 1 March '09

A long-winded slice of Bombay
Factory Girl

Sunday 18 January '09

An intimate account of growing up in changing China
Hunt for Mr Biswas

Sunday 4 January '09

Arun Joshi’s extraordinary novel was the English, August of the Seventies
I lluminating Areas of Darkness

Sunday 13 April '08

In this colourful biography of Naipaul, Patrick French unravels the enigmatic genius with all his quirks, insecurities and troubled relationships.
Year Marked

Sunday 26 August '07

The story of Britain’s 20th century through three generations of women
Leaves of Grass

Sunday 22 July '07

In a disturbing memoir, Grass revisits his complicity in the Nazi project
Two men & a globe

Sunday 17 June '07

A young German’s unusual novel about a geographer and a mathematician
Activism on the Shore

Sunday 3 June '07

Susan Visvanathan catches a little fishing community on the cusp of change
Soap-seller’s Opera

Sunday 20 May '07

An irreverent narrative about the practical aspects of upper middle-class life
Those Elder Days

Sunday 29 April '07

A ‘new’ Tolkien is marvelous enough. But it really stands among his best
Uniquely Common

Sunday 15 April '07

Anand is the pen-name of eminent Malayalam writer P. Sachidanandan. Born in 1936 in Irinjalakuda in Kerala, the son of a primary schoolteacher, Anand trained and worked as an engineer...
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