January 14, 2023 · 10:35 am There are lots of new books due in 2023 which I’m looking forward to reading and my list continues to expand by the day. All publication dates where known apply to the United Kingdom only. There are some promising looking debut novels out in January…
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Books I Read in January 2024
February 11, 2023 · 12:34 pm Love Marriage by Monica Ali tells the story of 26-year-old junior doctor Yasmin Ghorani who is engaged to fellow medic Joe Sangster. The novel opens with Yasmin’s Bengali immigrant parents meeting Joe’s famous feminist mother for the first time at her house in Primrose Hill. The evening forces Yasmin to…
The Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2024
March 8, 2023 · 8:32 pm The Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist for 2023 was announced yesterday. The 16 titles are: Glory by NoViolet BulawayoHomesick by Jennifer CroftFire Rush by Jacqueline CrooksChildren of Paradise by Camilla GrudovaStone Blind by Natalie HaynesTrespasses by Louise KennedyDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverCursed Bread by Sophie MackintoshThe Dog of the…
The Booker Prize 2024: Predictions, Preferences and Possibilities
July 28, 2024 · 11:53 am The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize is due to be announced on Tuesday 30th July. I’ve had mixed results over the last decade or so in my attempts to predict some likely contenders alongside my personal preferences and other possibilities, but it’s always fun to guess anyway. …
Books I Read in February 2024
March 18, 2023 · 11:52 am Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2021 – two of my favourite literary prizes. Flyn explores 13 places where humans used to live but have now left for…
Books I Read in March 2024
April 8, 2023 · 9:23 am Lessons by Ian McEwan spans the life of Roland Baines, born shortly after the Second World War. Taking in several major world crises from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Chernobyl disaster to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as intimate domestic events, ‘Lessons’ is a sprawling epic and easily McEwan’s…
Tata Harrier Owner Attacked by Goons, Dashcam Captures Entire Incident
Indian roads can be quite perilous as this case surfaces where goons attack a Tata Harrier owner. Such shocking incidents are unfortunately prevalent in our country. That makes driving here extremely risky and dangerous. Road rage is a huge issue not just in India, but across the globe. But I have been reporting innumerable road…
Books I Read in April 2024
May 18, 2023 · 6:49 pm Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake is a travel memoir which documents the Guardian food writer’s “British breakfast odyssey” cycling around the UK in search of all the components of breakfast food from sausages in Glamorgan to potato bread in Northern Ireland to jam in Tiptree. Hampered by…
Books I Read in May 2023
June 17, 2023 · 12:05 pm Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld is one of my most anticipated books of 2023. Sally is a comedy writer for the late-night sketch show The Night Owls – a fictionalised version of Saturday Night Live – where she meets Noah Brewster, a pop star since the early 2000s who…
Tata CURVV 25 Features Leaked
The electric iteration of the Tata CURVV will launch on August 7 with the petrol and diesel variants to follow in the following weeks. Some top features in the upcoming Tata CURVV have been leaked online. CURVV will be the first mass-market coupe SUV at a relatively affordable price point in our market. The Indian…
Books I Read in June 2024
July 15, 2023 · 9:13 am I went to the Hay Festival for a couple of days at the end of May and picked up Regenesis by George Monbiot from the signed copies table in the Festival Bookshop (climate and food seemed to be big topics at the Festival this year). The first half of…
The Booker Prize 2024: Predictions, Possibilities and Preferences
July 22, 2023 · 1:19 pm In my Booker Prize blog post last year, I noted that my longlist predictions lists in 2020 and 2021 included the eventual winners in those years: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and The Promise by Damon Galgut. I posed the question of whether I could make it three years in a row. The answer…