A Game Of Chance Heads You Win, Jeffrey Archer’s first standalone novel after the sprawling seven-part Clifton Chronicles, is also an epic set in three countries spanning several decades. In 1968, a…
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When Duty Calls Fiona Barton’s third novel, The Suspect, also has as it protagonist, a senior and seasoned reporter, Kate Waters, only this time, she is on both sides of a…
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Love, Lies and Suspense For Sujoy Ghose, whose biggest hit so far has been Kahaani, the Spanish film The Invisible Guest (Oriol Paulo, 2016) , must have been an attractive project to remake. …
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Ghetto Girl The Hate U Give, the first novel by Angie Thomas, a scathing account of racism, seen from the point of view of a teenage black girl, was a…
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There was a short story, read long ago, in which a woman wants to take up a job. She gets one to run a crèche, so she has to hire…
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Girl In The Cold War At the best of times, it would be difficult, if not impossible, for a woman to get into the murky all-male world of espionage. And…
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Perilous Polly Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s twenty-third novel, Sunburn, is a twisty-turny romantic thriller, with a beautiful and sexy redheaded protagonist, who, after a bad marriage, decides to take control of her destiny,…
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All Noise, Little Fun Third in the Dhamaal series, this one too has a bunch of people chasing money, in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World mode, which is one major thing that’s…
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The Time Is Right Dharavi, often referred to Asia’s largest slum, gave birth to the an underground rap scene, their rhythms, costumes and attitude strangely inspired by a form popularized…
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Recently, there was a show of a play called Pink Sari Revolution, directed by the London-based Suba Das, written by Purva Naresh, based on the book by Amana Fontanella-Khan. Made one wonder…