Interview with New Zealand picture book author and illustrator, Ruth Paul

13 12 , 2019 No Comments
I met award-winning picture book author and illustrator Ruth Paul at the residence of the New Zealand High Commissioner on 4 Dec 2019 for a
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Interview with Dipankar Mukherjee, founder, Readomania

13 12 , 2019 No Comments
Dipankar Mukherjee is the Founder & Director of Readomania, an independent publishing house based in India. Under his stewardship, the house has produced more than
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Agni Sreedhar’s “The Gangster’s Gita”

09 12 , 2019 No Comments
The Gangster’s Gita by Agni Sreedhar is a slim book. It is a conversation between a hit man and his victim. They are waiting for
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Of debut novels

07 12 , 2019 No Comments
2019 is proving to be a year of debut writing. Perhaps it is also an indication of the disruption that digital technology has made of
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Elton John’s “Me”

06 12 , 2019 No Comments
I read Elton John’s autobiography Me that has been written with the assistance of journalist Alexis Petridis. It is so full of enjoyable trivia about
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“Love” by by Hanne Ørstavik and translated by Martin Aitken

05 12 , 2019 No Comments
The publisher, Stefan Tobler, very kindly sent a reading copy of the award-winning Love that I read in one fell swoop. I could not put
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Book Post 51: 12-24 Nov 2019

25 11 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 51 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. Wherever available Amazon’s Kindle widget has been embedded in the blog
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Jaipur BookMark — “Where books mean business!”

25 11 , 2019 No Comments
Jaipur BookMark is a critical component of Jaipur Literature Festival . The tag line for JBM is “where books mean business”. It is certainly one
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Book Post 50: 3 – 11 Nov 2019

12 11 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 50 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. Wherever available Amazon’s Kindle widget has been embedded in the blog
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The art of biography, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Ken Krimstein

08 11 , 2019 No Comments
Earlier this year I read two brilliant books. Both happened to be biographies. One is the long, detailed biography of Thomas Cromwell: A Life by
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