Even less than two weeks in Kenya’s stunning wilderness makes for a coffee table book and a case for conservation. Could we expect anything less from India’s most eloquent tiger watcher?
The Booker Prize winning author writes brutally honest stories about love, loss and loneliness
A slim but fine anthology captures the essential achievements of Tamil poetry from the Sangam period to contemporary times
In Updike’s final collection of stories, published posthumously, death is a constant presence and it seems to have played an active role in his imagination
Farahad Zama is possibly the first man to win a romance writer’s prize. So watch out Barbara Cartland
When an Aussie talks about cricket, the world stops to listen. But John Buchanan’s book disappoints. He envisions T20 as an Olympic sport, but has no original ideas to make this happen
Readers now have access to another of Sankar’s gems, Jana Aranya, in English
Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel walks back through two centuries to reflect on the Brahmin’s burden and Tamil lineage through a feminine perspective
The burden of traditional expectations. Unscrupulous doctors. New-age medical technology. This is not Dan Brown, this is real India