The Woman Who Sold the Future
I noticed a small dark tattoo on Rosella’s arm. A circle and a horizontal line that meet on the top of the vertex of a triangle. Off the horizontal line were two short upright lines on either side. Like the…
Category Novels
Santa Gertrudis
Christina’s car was a reluctant old thing. I sat in it a while, breathed in the stale upholstery, looking for clues about her life. There was nothing in there except an empty bottle of diet lemonade and a half-eaten packet…
A New Theory of Infinity
I am telling you this for what will follow, so that you really know where I am coming from. I am not prone to far-fetched nonsense. I think the moon landings were real and that the Earth is, roughly speaking,…
Mathematics
I am not great at believing in the mystical. I think it is because I was raised a Catholic and have had a life full of unanswered prayers. I wouldn’t say I am totally unreligious. But even when I was…
A Third Full
I felt uncertain. And this uncertainty was to intensify until I had to hear my own breath just to know I was real. A part of me wondered if I was now taking part in some elaborate prank. After all,…
Necessity
I needed to get out of the house. I needed to know what happened to Christina.
Satisfaction
It was a lovely letter. Any letter that gives you a car in the postscript has its bonuses. But I must admit it made me feel exhausted, troubled, and even more confused than I had been to begin with. I…
Dear Grace,
If you are reading this, you made the right decision. This house isn’t much, but it is everything I own. I wanted to thank you. Your kindness all those years ago saved my life. I know it sounds melodramatic, but…
The Olive Jar
I walked around the place. I was looking for answers, but I couldn’t find any. I saw a dried and probably dead potted plant in the bedroom on the chest of drawers, drooping and brown. A peace lily, I think.…
The Pictures on the Wall
And there I was, on the asphalt in the sunshine. My swollen feet desperate to be released from their shoes. I wished I had worn my easy-fit sandals, but they had seemed a bit too outré this morning, when I…
Desolation
We were pulling over now. We were here. A desolate place with nothing around but traffic. The only picture I had seen had been of the exterior, reprinted onto a letter, and, like my eyes, was not of very good…
Salt
The driver had seen me looking at the bicycle and thought I was interested in the shop. He seemed to be trying to make up for his earlier awkwardness at seeing the address. ‘Ibiza is an island of salt. They…
It Begins with A
I had a small tartan suitcase and an address and an envelope with a key inside. That was it. That was everything. A world condensed. ‘What hotel?’ the taxi driver asked me, smiling, as he placed my case in the…
The Tall Rock
The Tall Rock On the plane to Ibiza, I sat in front of a row of young people talking excitedly about nightclubs. It sounded like a new but half-familiar language. A kind of code. ‘So … Ushuaïa tomorrow, Monday DC-10…
The Life Impossible – Conversations with the Dead
Conversations with the DeadOn the way to the cemetery I passed my old boss – and your old headteacher, Mr Gupta – leaving a coffee shop. After some small talk he asked me how I was doing, and I was…
The Life Impossible – Matt Haig An Ongoing Situation
An Ongoing Situation. ‘Sorry if this is too direct,’ I told the solicitor. ‘But how did she die?’ ‘I thought you knew,’ she said. Mrs Una Kemp. A voice like it had only just come out of the fridge and…
The Life Impossible – Matt Haig Pineapples
The Life Impossible – Matt Haig PineapplesThe letter had been an unusual one. It had informed me that I had been left a property in Ibiza, Spain, belonging to someone called Christina van der Berg. This Christina van der Berg…
The Life Impossible – Matt Haig The Inability to Feel Pleasure
The Inability to Feel PleasureI was upside down when I decided to go to Ibiza. The surgery bed I was lying on was tilted so far back I thought I was going to slip off. There was a mirror on…
The Life Impossible – Matt Haig Apologies
ApologiesSorry. That was a bit grand and melancholy. Talking about myself in the third person. I am just setting the scene. It’s going to be fun, despite that introduction. And, like so many of life’s fun things, it will begin…
The Life Impossible – Matt Haig -Sob Story
Sob Story Once upon a time there was an old woman who lived the most boring life in the universe. That woman rarely left her bungalow, except to see the doctor, help at the charity shop, or visit the cemetery.…
The Mahabharata Secret
It is a thriller novel that revolves around mythology, science, religion and terrorism. The story-line takes the readers all the way back to ancient times in 244 B.C., where Emperor Ashoka the Great discovers a dark secret of the great…
Ahalya: The Sati Series
‘Lyrical and poetic … enthralling’ BIBEK DEBROY‘ A magical and thought-provoking adventure, Ahalya will intrigue and mesmerize readers’ CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI‘ An enigmatic tale about purity, chastity, seduction and redemption’ NAMITA GOKHALE‘ Brilliant and intriguing’ ANAND NEELAKANTAN’ Koral Dasgupta gives…
Norwegian Wood
Product description Review In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States,…
The Last Queen
The Last Queen Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ISBN-10: 9354894151 ISBN-13: 978-9354894152 Edition: Classic Edition Publisher: HarperCollins India Publication Date: 3 February 2022 Daughter of the royal kennel keeper, the beautiful Jindan Kaur went on to become Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s…