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Tara Dairman “All Four Stars”

Gladys Gatsby is an eleven year old who has been cooking gourmet dishes since she was five. Her parents have not a clue even when
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Cancer and literature for children and young adults

27 03 , 2014 No Comments

Seeing a child, even a teenager, ill has to be one of the most unpleasant experiences of life. Somehow the big C or cancer gets
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PRESS RELEASE: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA ANNOUNCES PUBLISHING, SALES AND MARKETING APPOINTMENTS & NEW ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

20 03 , 2014 No Comments

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA ANNOUNCES PUBLISHING, SALES AND MARKETING APPOINTMENTS & NEW ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE New Delhi, 20 March 2014 – Penguin Random House India’s
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“Faction” edited by Khalid Mohamed

20 03 , 2014 No Comments

“Stories can be our most priceless possession. We usually remember the most painful ones, or the most pleasurable. The past defines our present. There are
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Sally Green, “Half Bad”

18 03 , 2014 1 Comment

“The great thing about hate is that it takes away everything else so that nothing else matters.” ( p.196 Half Bad) Sally Green’s debut novel, Half Bad
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Hannah Kent, “Burial Rites”

17 03 , 2014 No Comments

‘Actions lie,’ Agnes retorted quickly. ‘Sometimes people never stood a chance in the beginning, or they might have made a mistake….’ ( p.107 Burial Rites ) Burial Rites is
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David Baldacci, “The Finisher”

11 03 , 2014 No Comments

It was released on 4 March 2014. Apparently it is part of a series. The story is revolves around a fourteen-seasons-old girl called Vega Jane.
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An interview in Storizen, Feb 2014

11 03 , 2014 No Comments

An interview with me published in Storizen, February 2014. It is an online literary magazine focusing upon Indian fiction in English. Here is the url: http://issuu.com/storizen/docs/feb2014/48 11
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Saba Imtiaz “Karachi you’re killing me!”

10 03 , 2014 No Comments

“The literature festival is one of Karachi’s biggest cultural events, so everyone turns up. It’s free, there’s the chance to meet authors, listen to poetry,
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Naomi Wood, “Mrs. Hemingway”

06 03 , 2014 No Comments

One afternoon she finds a copy of Ernest’s tribute to the president. Ernest had greeted the request from Washington with something close to cold fright.
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