Paperback: 326 pages
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin 2011
Source: Passed on to us by a UK friend.
First Sentence : ‘There were years after it happened, after I’d returned from the town and come back here to the busy blank of the city, when some comment would be tossed off about the Second World War and how it had gone – some idiotic remark about clarity and purpose-and I’d resist the urge to stub out my cigarette and bring the dinner party to a satisfying halt .’
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Author: Puneet Gupta
Publisher: Rupa & Co
The Suicide Banker is the story of a young banker whose employers believe in the motto of turning conventional wisdom upside down. Against the backdrop of financial boom and subsequent meltdown during the first decade of this century. Sumit becomes an unfortunate witness, active participant and ill-fated victim in the affairs of Ind-Credit Bank. Over the course of life-altering events, the once blue-eyed boy is slowly but surely sucked into the dark abyss of financial world his dreams collapsing one by one in…
This is the third book by the author, his first one being ‘The White Tiger’ which won the Man Booker Prize in 2008. I had read this award winning book sometime last year and had enjoyed it. Though ‘Last Man in Tower’ explores a story in similar lines, I cannot say the same about this book. No doubt, it is a very well written and a well researched story but there is something about it being so pessimistic, that it kind of creeps on you and leaves you devastated in…
Title: The Newsroom MafiaAuthor: Oswald PereiraPublisher: Grey Oak-WestlandPrice: Rs. 245Pages: 303Rating: 4 on 5 starts
Is there a genre of fiction that can be called a masala thriller? Or a bollywood thriller? Well, if there were one, then Oswald Pereira‘s debut novel would effortlessly claim the golden throne among the list of books belonging to this category. What a read!
The Newsroom Mafia is a journalist’s take on the crime syndicate that thrives in the dingy alleyways of Mumbai. Veteran journalist Oswald Pereira has woven a sensational story around the…
Title: The Eighth Guest and Other Muzaffar Jang Mysteries Author: Madhulika Liddle Publisher: Hachette India ISBN: 978-93-5009-275-0Genre: Fiction, Mystery Pages: 286Source: Publisher Rating: 4/5
Imagine this: 1656 Delhi. Muzaffar Jang – an aristocrat with friends in low places. He has just finished solving a case that involved two Englishmen and the Imperial Exchequer. All he wants to do is take it easy and here come more cases waiting for him to be solved. Muzaffar Jang also happens to be a detective – a part-time one but a detective nonetheless.
The…
>Title: The Eighth Guest and Other Muzaffar Jang Mysteries
Author: Madhulika Liddle
Publisher: Hachette India
ISBN: 978-93-5009-275-0
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
Pages: 286
Source: Publisher
Rating: 4/5
Imagine this: 1656 Delhi. Muzaffar Jang – an aristocrat with friends in low places. He has just finished solving a case that involved two Englishmen and the Imperial Exchequer. All he wants to do is take it easy and here come more cases waiting for him to be solved. Muzaffar Jang also happens to be a detective – a part-time one but a detective…
Book Review : Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos, how to help the child who is bright, bored, and having problems in school by Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D.
The Edison trait is a personality characteristic, which Dr. Palladino has now classified as divergent thinking. She has done extensive research through her practice to help convergent thinkers gain a greater appreciation for their children who see the world differently.
About 20% of all children are now estimated to have divergent thinking patterns, and the number is quickly increasing due to the fast pace…
Book Review; No: Why Kids – of All Ages – Need to Hear It
and Ways Parents Can Say It by David Walsh, PhD
Dr. Walsh provides an approach for parents to change their parenting techniques through anecdotes stories, purpose in parenting and a variety of techniques. He has a common-sense approach that will be appreciated when faced with the far-fetched ideas of children. The book isn’t really about saying No as much as a resource to improve the parent/child relationship and a manual to help develop children into happy…
Book Review : The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers; Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity by Meg Meeker, M.D.
Meg Meeker tackles the universal mystery of what makes us happy as human beings and specifically as mothers. She uses her years of professional experience, as well as the many friendships she has developed over her years of mothering, to gain a greater understanding of how to obtain happiness. Each factor of happiness is described as a habit and then offers steps to make the habit stick. Many of the suggestions…
Pampered Margaret Macy flees London in disguise to escape pressure to marry a dishonorable man. With no money and nowhere else to go, she takes a position as a housemaid in the home of Nathaniel Upchurch, a suitor she once rejected in hopes of winning his dashing brother. Praying no one will recognize her, Margaret fumbles through the first real work of her life. If she can last until her next birthday, she will gain an inheritance from a spinster aunt–and sweet independence. But can she remain hidden as a…
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