Book Reviews

Future Present

Andaleeb Wajid

Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut work of fiction tells of a time when nations have fallen and corporations are running the world

Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future

Lavanya Lakshminarayan

White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s isolated tribes

Nidhi Dugar Kundalia

An Outsider’s Gaze

Sharanya Manivannan

A contemporary ethnographic work on isolated tribes that trespasses too often

Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology

Edited by Prerna Singh Bindra, Sonali Ghosh and Anuranjan Roy

Ode to Nature

Vaishali Rawat

A journey across Asia’s most beautiful wildernesses

The Boy from the Woods

Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben: ‘I like starting with a placid lake. I can then just drop a small pebble and see what happens’

Lhendup G Bhutia

In his latest novel, Harlan Coben writes about a feral child being adopted. The master of the suburban thriller tells Lhendup G Bhutia why pleasant families make for compelling stories

The Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel

Mantel’s Genius

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

The final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy proves how the kingmaker can make for a more compelling story than the king

The Flight of the Arconaut

Sophia Khan

Tinker a Tale

Sophia Khan

The everyday ingenuity we see around us is at the heart of steampunk, a genre defined by its combination of modern technology and anachronistic settings