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Best historical fiction books of 2024, from Robert Harris to Colm Tóibín
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Best historical fiction books of 2024, from Robert Harris to Colm Tóibín

The Independent  

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The tale of two women confronting crime in San Francisco, 80 years apart
7 months ago

The tale of two women confronting crime in San Francisco, 80 years apart

LA Times  

Book Review The Incorrigibles: A Novel By Meredith Jaeger Dutton: 368 pages, $18 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Meredith Jaeger’s fourth novel, “The Incorrigibles,” gives us her best rendering of California’s past. Inside San Quentin and out, the women in Jaeger’s novel save each …

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The Hindu on Books | Ian Jack’s India, John Keay’s Himalayas, Vasudhendra’s historical fiction and more
2 years, 1 month ago

The Hindu on Books | Ian Jack’s India, John Keay’s Himalayas, Vasudhendra’s historical fiction and more

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. In the Introduction, Jack celebrates the bustling publishing industry: “The Indian writer need no longer look over his shoulder at his imagined audience abroad; many if not most of his readers are much closer – are Indian …

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Ponniyin Selvan 2.0: Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus is a tipping point to take the Tamil classic to different generations in contemporary forms
2 years, 5 months ago

Ponniyin Selvan 2.0: Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus is a tipping point to take the Tamil classic to different generations in contemporary forms

The Hindu  

This festive season, the slew of big-screen releases will be led by Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan: I. A case in point is Nila Comics, a publication house in Chennai, which brought out a Ponniyin Selvan comic collection in Tamil and English in 2020 and 2021 aligned to the making of the movie. Gurgaon-based Chandrasekar Ramamoorthy, a young dad …

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Interview: Ali Khan Mahmudabad, translator, The Break of Dawn – ‘This project was a very personal one for me’
2 years, 10 months ago

Interview: Ali Khan Mahmudabad, translator, The Break of Dawn – ‘This project was a very personal one for me’

Hindustan Times  

MAA Khan, who writes under the pen-name Ali Khan Mahmudabad, is an Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. His last book, The Break of Dawn, is an English translation of Khan Mahboob Tarzi’s novel Aaghaz-e-Sahar originally written in Urdu. Ali Khan Mahmudabad As a teacher of both history and political science, how often do you use historical fiction in your classes? …

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Best historical fiction books: From thriller novels to romantic tomes
3 years, 7 months ago

Best historical fiction books: From thriller novels to romantic tomes

The Independent  

So you’ve finished Bridgerton, inhaled Julia Quinn's original book series, and plundered Austen – what now? While some of these are part of wider series – and therefore all the better for bingeing later – the standalones should also point you towards authors with back catalogues worth investigating. For the sake of space, we will assume that you know Hilary …

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