Author: Alice Feeney
Country: England
Publisher: HQ
Publication date: 23 March 2017
Language: English
Pages: 384
Rating: 4/5
"People are not mirrors - they don’t see you how you see yourself."
I read Sometimes I Lie in the summer. All psychological thrillers mess with your head, that's what we expect, but Alice Feeney has taken a step further with Sometimes I Lie. A clever, compelling novel, it...
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Random House UK
Publishing Date: 16 August 2017
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: Japanese, English
Translator: Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
Country: Japan
Rating: 4/5
“Here's what hurts the most," Kafuku said. "I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying at the...
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Penguin UK
Publishing date: 28 September 2010 (Originally published through 26 November 1859-25 August 1860)
Pages: 720
Language: English
Rating: 5/5
"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."
The Woman in White is one of those books that I am kicking myself for not reading sooner! The first 'sensationalist' novel in...
Author: Sunil Gangopadhyay
Publisher: HarperPerenial
Publishing Date: 17 October 2014
Pages: 328
Language: Bengali, English
Translator: Aruna Chakravarti
Country: India
Rating: 4/5
India has a treasure trove of regional literature. Not many of us are aware how rich and diverse regional literature can be. The first book in the regional literature category of my blog is Sunil Gangopadhyay's Primal Woman. It is originally written in Bengali and...
Author: Meena Kandasamy
Publisher: Juggernaut
Publication Date: 26 May 2017
Language: English
Country: India
Pages: 272
Rating: 5/5
"Don't let people remove you from your own story."
The experience of domestic violence is a universal thing. Every woman has undergone abuse of some sort, and When I Hit You is a searing account of it. It is lyrical in its prose, seething with rage and viscerally powerful....
Author: Indu Sundaresan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: 18 January 2012
Language: English
Country: India
Pages: 384
Rating: 4/5
The thing with historical fiction is its power to take us back in time. The Twentieth Wife takes the reader on a journey of Mughal India during the reign of Emperor Akbar and Jahangir. It is the story of the enigmatic Nur Jahan, Emperor Jahangir's twentieth and...
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin India
Publication Date: 6 June 2008
Pages: 600
Language: English
Country: India, Burma
Rating: 4.5/5
"What would it be like if I had something to defend- a home, a country, a family- and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys. How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to...
Author: Katherine Arden
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Publication Date: 30 Oct 2017
Language: English
Country: USA, Russia
Rating: 5/5
"Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name for them."
The Bear and The Nightingale is magical! I loved it and it is nothing short of perfection. It is easily one of the best books I...
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin UK
Publishing Date: 24 April 2012
Pages: 560
Language: English
Country: England
Rating: 4.5/5
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Mansfield Park is, perhaps the least popular novel of Jane Austen. Originally published in July 1814, Mansfield Park is very different from Pride and Prejudice and Sense and...
Author: Tehmina Durrani
Publisher: Penguin
Publishing Date: 14 Oct 2000
Pages: 237
Language: English
Country: Pakistan
Rating: 4/5
"...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared."
As soon as I started...