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Dilli-boy Vish Puri is on his third outing as India’s “Most Private Investigator” in Tarquin Hall’s The case of the deadly butter chicken and yet, this is only the first book of the series that I have read. The previous two books definitely feature quite prominently in my to-read list now.
There are some books which we read for excitement, some for entertainment, and some for knowledge and there are some books which are written not for our leisure but to inspire us. One of the books that made me look to the new arena of life was unstoppable by Nick Vujicic.
Are you a big fan of “batman” or “Zorro”?
If the answer is yes, then this novel is for you.
There are numerous of mystery and adventure novels in the market. Each and every one of them is unique in itself. Amongst them, there is a novel which is one of the jewels in this genre. In the year 1903, the novelist Baroness Orczy first entertained the audience with the play having the same plot, and then in 1905, it was succeeded by the novel.
Screw ‘Business As Usual’ is the 372 page outcome of the awakened social responsibility in the ever energetic entrepreneur, Richard Branson. All through this book, Branson emphasizes on how ‘doing good is good for businesses’. He not only asserts so but also justifies his words by giving many examples. He also warns people who do business solely for profits that they would cease to exist in the long run.
George W Bush’s first literary attempt is an account of how the man behind the presidential mask saw – and reacted to – the events chronicling his time as President of America, even as the world sat around and judged him.
Blogging, writing, poetry, painting- Preeti Shenoy does it all with equal ease. We catch up with the ‘mother of two’ whose books have topped the national bestselling charts. Your first book 34 Bubblegums and Candies was a collection of narratives based on real life incidents. What was the inspiration to start penning down these incidents? I started blogging to get over the grief of losing my father. Initially when I wrote it was for myself – as an outlet to express my grief and thoughts. I found that a lot of people were moved by what I had written and wrote back to me saying they were positively impacted by what I had written. My fan base grew over a period of time and a lot of my diehard fans asked me write a book. That is how 34 B&C was born. It is a book of 34 real life incidents that have taken place in my friends and my lives which are equally applicable in everyone’s day to day lives. I was very pleased with the response to the book. I had also thought it would appeal only to a very young audience, but was pleasantly surprised to find…
Today’s new era of literature is full of possibility for different opportunities. Books are not only “paragraph” now. It’s more of a representation that a reader would be able to understand to the very core.
Nadeem Aslam from Pakistan now lives in England. He is the author of three novels, Season of the Rainbirds (1993), Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) – long listed for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, and awarded the Kiriyama Prize and the Encore Award – and, most recently, The Wasted Vigil.
A pleasantly engaging read for a relatively lazy week, Last Night in Twisted River encompasses the lives of a man and his son, on the run from their past, across the breadth of the United States for over five decades.
“How About A Sin Tonight?” Trust Novoneel Chakroborthy to come up with an interesting title for his third novel. Sounds like a dialogue doesn’t it? Like the Bollywood Film Industry it centres around, this book too has its fair share of “filmi” dialogues and stories. The story revolves around 5 characters held together by the common thread of Bollywood. Shahrann Ali Bakshi is one of the many who throng to Bombay carrying within them, the hope of making it big. He wants to be a movie star but settles for working as a taxi driver.