novel

The Bright Spark

Nandini Nair

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, about a terrorist attack, deals with the big questions of contemporary India with a light hand

Gibberish Galore

Aditya Mani Jha

The enduring pleasures of nonsense stories and verse

Searching For Home

Vineetha Mokkil

Jahnavi Barua’s novel delves into the complexities of familial bonds in strife-ridden Assam

One Hundred Years of Hercule Poirot

Aditya Mani Jha

The eternal detective

Search for Home

Ameya Nagarajan

In a novel for young readers, Anita Roy takes one on a romp through Deadland

Amit Majmudar: ‘There Are No Atheists in the Trenches’

Urvashi Bahuguna

Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna

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

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

Joanna Rakoff: ‘You want the movie to be more like a poem and less like a novel’

Rajeev Masand

Joanna Rakoff speaks to Rajeev Masand about watching her memoir My Salinger Year on screen and the decision to never show JD Salinger

The Legend of Kuttanad

Jai Arjun Singh

This many-layered novel, about a folk-hero and his fabulous moustache, examines the nature of story-telling— how people, animals and places can be kept alive through the narratives built around them