

Saturday 21 November '09
The new and thought-provoking SF from Ian McDonald, Cyberabad Days, is set in the India of 2047.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.Saturday
17 October '09A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 322 $25.95Friday
25 September '09The Little Stranger Sarah Waters Virago 499 pages Rs 550Saturday
12 September '09Hundreds Hall is the great house of the village. The Little Stranger, the new novel by Sarah Waters, opens with an Empire Day Fete.....Saturday
29 August '09A rich and powerful collection from one of the best living writers of the short story....Sunday
19 July '09This chick-lit heroine is not just about Manolos; she shops for modern artSunday
5 July '09A debut novel travels to a Tamil village at the turn of the 20th century where old codes of caste and gender crumble around a widowSunday
21 June '09Fiction asks troubling questions of Sri LankaSunday
7 June '09A twenty-something crime reporter remaps MumbaiSunday
24 May '09A British PM, a football match, blackmail, bisexuality — it is a political martiniSunday
3 May '09Memories shot through with some philosophySunday
29 March '09A boho journey from Venice to VaranasiSunday
15 March '09A tale of loss and longing from Occupied FranceSunday
1 March '09A long-winded slice of BombaySunday
18 January '09An intimate account of growing up in changing ChinaSunday
4 January '09Arun Joshi’s extraordinary novel was the English, August of the SeventiesSunday
13 April '08In this colourful biography of Naipaul, Patrick French unravels the enigmatic genius with all his quirks, insecurities and troubled relationships.Sunday
26 August '07The story of Britain’s 20th century through three generations of womenSunday
22 July '07In a disturbing memoir, Grass revisits his complicity in the Nazi projectSunday
17 June '07A young German’s unusual novel about a geographer and a mathematicianSunday
3 June '07Susan Visvanathan catches a little fishing community on the cusp of changeSunday
20 May '07An irreverent narrative about the practical aspects of upper middle-class lifeSunday
29 April '07A ‘new’ Tolkien is marvelous enough. But it really stands among his bestSunday
15 April '07Anand 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...