Tuesday Reads (Vol 1): 11 June 2019

11 06 , 2019 No Comments
Dear Reader, There are so many exciting new books being published that sometimes it is a tad challenging writing about them as fast as one
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An interview with Ekarat

10 06 , 2019 No Comments
Recently Speaking Tiger Books published a collection of short stories called The Book of Love Stories by Ekarat. The book cover is illustrated with two
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Mira Jacob’s “Good Talk”

10 06 , 2019 No Comments
Award-winning author Mira Jacob‘s Good Talk is a graphic memoir. It was written after the extraordinary success of her 37 Difficult Questions From My Mixed-Race
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Book Post 38: 26 May – 8 June 2019

10 06 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 38 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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A request from award-winning Canadian children’s writer, JonArno Lawson

09 06 , 2019 No Comments
Asking for a friend. JonArno Lawson is a Canadian writer who is doing research on storytelling that’s nonverbal, or close to nonverbal. Storytelling that’s done
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Jeanette Winterson “Frankisstein: A Love Story”

07 06 , 2019 No Comments
Nothing — said Professor Stein — it tells us a great deal about Saudi Arabia. Professor Stein, as you know, the Hanson robot, Sophia was
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“It’s Not About the Burqa” edited by Mariam Khan

05 06 , 2019 No Comments
I am a woman, but I am also a Muslim and a person of colour, and these identities cannot be separated. I can’t set aside
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Tishani Doshi’s “Small Days and Nights”

05 06 , 2019 No Comments
I had been prepared for ugliness because that’s what grows in India, sprouts and flourishes like the hair on a dead person. But the space
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Kamala Markandaya’s “The Nowhere Man”

04 06 , 2019 No Comments
‘If one lives in a foreign country,’ he said with some pride, and felt as he had felt when they championed the cause of his
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An interview with Cordis Paldano

01 06 , 2019 No Comments
Cordis Paldano’s debut novel for children The Dwarf, The Girl and the Holy Goat is a must read. Story apart, the pace, the rhythm, the storytelling
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