Medieval England soars and plummets in Ishiguro’s seventh novel, a fantasy tale
A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad
Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment
An Indologist from Italy reflects on the rapture that religion offers as an experience
A seething knot of a coming of age story shows how India’s 90s generation deals with drugs, sex, magic mushrooms and, of course, divorce
A journalist employs black comedy to highlight all that is wrong with India’s economy
One of Sri Lanka’s most compelling voices plays with ideas of displacement
Shashi Tharoor takes on everything from Modi to the significance of birthdays with his elegant prose, but spreads his umbrella too wide