Book review: A Cure for a Crime by Roopa Farooki
The cover A Summary The Cure For a Crime is about the twins, Ali and Tulip, whose Mum has got a strange new
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Review: The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan
by Leela Soma Set in South India, in the tiny cantonment of Nandagiri The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan traces the lives of the
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Review: Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy’s latest novel, Exquisite Cadavers began as a response to her second novel, When I Hit You. It follows the story of
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Review: Crossroads Festival, Saturday 5 October 2019
Rehearsal Room 1 of Leicester’s Curve Theatre has mirrored walls, free-standing doors, and a staircase to nowhere. An appropriate setting for the inaugural
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Review: JLF Belfast 2019
In 2011 I had travelled to Jaipur Literary Festival, THE JLF in Jaipur. It was a gigantic affair with all the glamour that
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Student review: In Conversation with Nikesh Shukla
Last month highly acclaimed writer Nikesh Shukla addressed an audience at De Montfort University Leicester as part of their annual student-led Cultural Exchanges
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It’s Not About the Burqa
It’s Not About the Burqa is presented as a collection of essays on ‘faith, feminism, sexuality and race’ and it is a lot
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Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
Mohammad Hanif’s third novel, Red Birds, opens on familiar ground; as we explore the wreckage of a smouldering plane, 10 years after General
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
It’s that time of year when self-help books promising to help us get fit, get healthy, be happy dominate the bestseller lists and
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Review: Table Manners
This is a great collection filled with moments of real tenderness and surprise. A servant eavesdrops on her mistress’s unfolding affair with a
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