Books

The introduction to ‘God’s Own Office’ begins with three-year-old Joseph returning home from church, only to realize that something is wrong. “I started shouting at

By Shilpa Raina Author Neel Mukherjee is absolutely “thrilled” that “The Lives of Others” has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2104.

  REVIEWED BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Title: From a Tilted Pail; Publisher: Queen’s Ferry Press Available at Amazon and Queen’s Ferry Press “Isn’t that hot” one

By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: The First Naxal: An Authorised Biography of Kanu Sanyal; Author: Bappaditya Paul; Publisher: Sage Publications; Pages: 249 It is amazing

New York, Aug 23 (IANS) Indian American writer Nina McConigley is the recipient of the prestigious PEN Open Book Award for her collection of short

Nitasha Kaul, author of Residue. Reckless voices and poetic verses won a book the Pulitzer prize this year and other fictional tales made the longlisted

Theodore Roosevelt By Vikas Datta (12:34) A British prime minister who was a novelist too, a US president known for works on history and nature, an

New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Celebrated writer Chetan Bhagat feels that the college cutoffs should not bog one down because hard work can also take

By Shilpa Raina Title: Gulab; Author:Annie Zaidi; Publisher: Harper Collins; Pages: 186; Price: Rs.350 There is a mysterious, parallel world out there. Some believe, some

BY MAHADEV DESAI Renowned  and one of the leading South African novelists,anti-apartheid  activist and Nobel Prize Laureate,90 years old  Nadine Gordimer passed away peacefully  in