Flying Without Wings

Author: Rishabh Puri Publisher: HarperCollins and Black Ink Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 3/5 Blurb: For Milli Bajwa, life is at a stand-still. Grounded in the Chandigarh airport where she works day after day, she watches flights leaving for destinations she knows she'll never visit. Loveless and luckless, she would rather bury her nose in…

Half Of A Yellow Sun

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2007 Language: English Rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university lecturer, Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live…

Dharmayoddha Kalki- Avatar Of Vishnu

Author: Kevin Missal Publisher: Kalamos Literary Services Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 3/5 Blurb: Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and an upsurge in unrighteousness,at that time, I take birth again. -LORD GOVIND. Born in the quiet village of Shambala, Kalki Hari, son of Vishnuyath and Sumati, has no idea about his heritage until…

Purple Hibiscus

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2004 Language: English Rating: 4/5 Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Kambili lives in fear of her father, a charismatic yet violent Catholic patriarch who, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Escape and discovery of a new, liberated way of life come when…

You Never Know

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Author: Akash Verma Publisher: Penguin India Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 2.5/5 Blurb: There will be times when you feel you have the best relationship, ever There will be times when it will be the worst that has happened to you There will be times when you know you are…

Adventures In Farland

Author: Moshank Relia Publisher: Rumour Books India Release Date: 19th October 2017 Genre: Children's Fiction Language: English Rating: 4.5/5 Blurb:  Mira Rawat has heard tales of Farland all her life from her mother, who has described the magical place of gnomes, fairies, mermaids and animals, and especially its wondrous festival, the New Moon Party. Now,…

True Liars

Author: Isha Inamdar Publisher: Harlequin Published: 2017 Language: English Rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: Aspiring deejay NJ - Anjana - lives in Mumbai with her best friend Harsh and his boyfriend Sam. When Harsh has to go to Phalodi, his hometown in Rajasthan, for his sister's wedding, he convinces NJ to tag along, posing as his girlfriend…

That Long Silence

Author: Shashi Deshpande Publisher: Penguin Books India Published: 1989 Language: English Rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: Her familiar existence disrupted, her husband's reputation in question and their future as a family in jeopardy, Jaya, a failed writer, is haunted by memories of the past. Differences with her husband, frustrations in their seventeen-year-old marriage, disappointment in her two teenage children, the claustrophobia of…

The Undertaking

Author: Audrey Magee Publisher: Atlantic Books Published : 2014 Language : English Rating : 3/5 Blurb: A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph  of a woman he has never met. Hundred of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries the photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love, however, when Peter and…