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Combining her admiration for Japanese culture with the critical eye of a journalist, Aiyar writes an ode to her years in Japan.

A cursed ship. An eight-month long voyage. Several people with reasons to loathe each other. And ominous signs of the Devil's presence.

A quick read about the unlikely bond between a teenager and an elderly widower, catalyzed by eight books.

A book that lifts the dust covers draped over concepts like colonialism, labour markets and debt to show us how they changed the world.

A struggling writer steals the plot of a dead writer's unpublished novel and makes it big. What could possibly go wrong?

An English activist is murdered in a sleepy hamlet in the hills. And the murderer is not the only one with a secret worth killing for.

A panoramic look at everything that has happened since the birth of the universe and our place in it.

A heart-warming book about a curmudgeon of a man who finds love and a sense of belonging after believing he'd lost it all.

An interesting premise pulled down by a somewhat predictable plot and lack-lustre characterisation.

A writer writing about another writer except that there is murder, mystery and history in the mix.

Jennifer has cancer but that's not her real killer. She has six weeks to figure out who poisoned her.