Published by Jonathan Cape London / Random House, 2025, 254 pages This is Salman Rushdie’s latest book, a collection of three longish stories bookended by two short ones. Given the attack on him that almost killed him and the fact that he is now 78, it is not surprising that many of the stories deal …
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The Book of Records: Madeleine Thien
Published by Granta Books / W.W. Norton & Company, 2025, 368 pages “The only way to really remember is to forget everything and let time fill the story up. To reach it through a different doorway. Things have to inhabit the living or else disappear from the world and cease to exist. If things survive …
Reaching Summits: An Interview with Rosemary J. Brown
Photo: Adrian Pope Rosemary J. Brown is a journalist and author based in London. Her book, Moving Mountains: Intrepid Women Climbers and the Peaks Named in Their Honour, has just been published. Her first book was Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World (2021). Rosemary is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, …
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The Republic of Dreams: Nélida Piñon
Translated from Portuguese by Helen LanePublished by Picador / Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, 663 pages. Original version published in 1984. This multigenerational story set mostly in Brazil is centred around Madruga, a Galician who leaves Spain in the early 20th century for the new world in the hope of making his fortune. When the book …
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
Published by Vintage, 2022, 482 pagesReview by Usha Raman and Suroor Alikhan This is the story of a friendship—one that survives betrayals and tragedies. Two 11-year-olds meet in a paediatric hospital. Sam Masur is there after a horrific accident has smashed his foot, leaving him traumatized and refusing to speak. Sadie Green is there because …
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A Disappearance in Fiji: Nilima Rao
Published by Zaffre, 2023, 280 pages Fiji, 1914. Sergeant Akal Singh, an Indian Sikh, has been sent to Fiji after a humiliating incident in Hong Kong, where he was serving. All he wants to do is crack an important case to prove himself, so his superiors can send him back to Hong Kong. When his …
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