Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart trilogy by Sarah Rose, 11 yo

15 07 , 2021 No Comments
The Inkheart trilogy consists of Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath ( Scholastic). This is a fantastic trilogy by author Cornelia Funke, translated by the late Anthea
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David Walliams “Megamonster” — Guest post by Sarah Rose, 11 yo

15 07 , 2021 No Comments
Children’s author and comedian David Walliams released his latest novel Megamonster on 24 June 2021 ( HarperCollins India). It’s about an orphan nicknamed Larker who
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“Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr

14 07 , 2021 No Comments
She works as much from memory as from the manuscript, and inside the little stone cottage, something happens: the sick child is in her lap,
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“Moth” by Melody Razak

03 07 , 2021 No Comments
Delhi, 1946 Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen-year-old daughter — precocious, headstrong Alma — is soon to be
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“Ariadne” by Jennifer Saint

03 07 , 2021 No Comments
But for me, the true gift was to watch them work and talk unconstrained. No men chaperoned them here, in thsi space sacred to women
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Scholastic’s LGBTQIA+ YAlit

03 07 , 2021 No Comments
It is rare, even now in these liberal and emancipated times, for a publishing house to have a dedicated imprint to LGBTQIA+ literature. Under the
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“The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron

18 06 , 2021 No Comments
Julia Cameron’s bestselling The Artists Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity ( first published 1991) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To commemorate it, the
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Anjali Joseph, “Keeping in Touch”

18 06 , 2021 No Comments
Award-winning writer Anjali Joseph’s Keeping in Touch ( Context, Westland/Amazon) is about Keteki and Ved Ved, both of whom are in their late thirties. (Ved
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“Still Life” by Sarah Winman

13 06 , 2021 No Comments
Sarah Winman’s Still Life begins during the Second World War and then the story develops over the next few decades. The cast of characters, more
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“Charanik” by Mohanlal Gangopadhyay, translated by Jayanta Sengupta

13 06 , 2021 No Comments
Writer Mohanlal Gangopadhyay’s Charanik: The Walker was first published in Bengali in 1942. It is an account of his walking tour of Czechoslovakia during his
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