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What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid... -
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc... -
The cover jacket of Horatio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness poses a question... -
It's a fearsome task for authors to make readers feel afraid these days. They... -
Meet Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire, who first met when Henry was 36 and... -
Warning: Spoilers Ahead! Love is rarely worthy of a chronicle if it is not... -
The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel and is also his most well... -
The Little Prince is perhaps the most loved and most widely read book in the... -
The Republic of Biafra was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria.... -
Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura...
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas won the 2009 Best Book prize at the esteemed Commonwealth Writers' Awards ceremony that was held at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival on Saturday. Tsiolkas... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity
The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, written by James M. Cain, an exponent in the hardboiled school of writing, were two of the great masterpieces in American literature, and sources... -
Nine Lives: in search of the sacred in modern India
India is in the throes of massive and multi-dimensional socio-economic change. That has already – in some circles at least – become cliché. Also, a lot of people are determined to call this change... -
Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
Mystic River, the brilliant and award-winning contemporary crime fiction novel by Dennis Lehane, is the tale of three Boston buddies whose lives took divergent courses after one fateful day when they... -
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
I've previously read other titles by Haruki Murakami such as Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and I've commented each time that the storyline was surreal and filled with very rich... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
The gift of genius often accompanies the curse of aberrance (Van Gogh, Einstein, Mozart are great examples) – for the lack of a subtler word. Sometimes insensitivity is a by-product of ignorance, but... -
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The ancient Byzantine historian Procopius wrote a book called Anecdota, more commonly known as Arcana histora (The Secret History) chronicling the scandals and court intrigues of the rule of the... -
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Warning: Spoilers Ahead! Love is rarely worthy of a chronicle if it is not cheeky, blasphemous, unexpected, life-altering, I wrote in my review of Memories of my melancholy whores. I guess I should... -
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore could be called a retelling of the Oedipus myth, but not essentially so; Yes, there is an ominous father; Yes there is a troubled teenage boy, and, yes there is also... -
A Strange Attachment and Other Stories - Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
For the first fifty years the word ‘sentimental’ was used, it was used with a heart and without a smirk. Then, along came 1793 and the world got a tad more cynical. ‘Sentimental’ came to be known as... -
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” this famous first line is one of those which can by instantly recognized by any... -
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The Little Prince is perhaps the most loved and most widely read book in the West after the Bible. The book has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies,...