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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

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’

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

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

A Tale of Two Sisters

So all is Peace is a tearjerker guised as a mystery, masked in social commentary

Neruda’s Ship

Isabel Allende’s new novel follows exiles in search of a home in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War

From the Spectral Island

Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts

The Art of Loss

A widower’s weekend of highs and lows in Bombay

Magic Realist

Keshava Guha’s first novel is powered by Potternama

Bengal Noir

Gooptu’s debut novel brings to life the vintage Tollygunge studio

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