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Shirley Jackson

< Love this!> #ShirleyJackson “The #NovelistDisguised As a #Housewife” Shirley Jackson wrote 17 books while raising four children — and she couldn’t have had a
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Chris Riddell on the importance of reading out aloud

04 10 , 2016 No Comments

These pictures have been downloaded from Chris Riddell’s personal page on Facebook and shared with his permission. The Scholastic India released the Kids &
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Press Release: Jeet Thayil announces a new book with Aleph

20 09 , 2016 2 Comments

Aleph Book Company is delighted to announce that it will be publishing Jeet Thayil’s new novel, The Book of Chocolate Saints, in 2017. This book
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Press Release: “Harry Hole is Back!”

19 09 , 2016 No Comments

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! Harvill Secker announce Harry Hole’s return in a new JO NESBO novel in 2017 THE THIRST by JO NESBO will be
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Press Release: V.S. Naipaul’s THE INDIAN TRILOGY (with an Introduction by Paul Theroux)

19 09 , 2016 No Comments

THIS OCTOBER PICADOR INDIA publishes V.S. Naipaul’s THE INDIAN TRILOGY (with an Introduction by Paul Theroux) IMPRINT: PICADOR INDIA ISBN: 9789382616900 MRP: INR 799
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Volga “The Liberation of Sita”

31 08 , 2016 No Comments

‘Till you take decisions for Rama’s sake and not yours, it will continue to pursue you, Sita. Look at yourself. You are enduring great pain.
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Literature on mental health

30 08 , 2016 No Comments

This past month I have spent a while reading literature about mental health. It was sparked off by the publication of the maginificent collection of
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Wyl Menmuir, “The Many”

09 08 , 2016 No Comments

Timothy has come to resurrect Perran. He has come to destroy Perran’s house, to erase his memory. He’s come because that’s what upcountry folk do, to replace the
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Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian”, translated by Deborah Smith

09 08 , 2016 1 Comment

She was crouching, still wearing her nightclothes, her dishevelled, tangled hair a shapeless mass around her face. Around her, the kitchen floor was covered with
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Tamil author Perumal Murugan stands tall, Bookwitty

03 08 , 2016 2 Comments

(My article on Perumal Murugan and the magnificent judgement delivered by Madras High Court Chief Justice Sanjay Kishen Kaul on 5 July 2016. It was
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