When Lori, a curious and wide-eyed slender loris, spies a bewildering catlike figure in the fading light of the evening, she instantly becomes...
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Maya in a Mess, like the others, is a chapter book for young readers, possibly a sequal to Meera Nair’s Maya Saves the Day. In this story...
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The old adage about not judging a book by its cover – and, by extension, title – turned out to be true in the case of Sowmya Rajendran’s Ashwathy...
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The frame narrative can be a highly imaginative and effective technique of storytelling. One of the best examples is, of course, the ever popular...
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Collaborative story writing isn’t the easiest of tasks, and this book is the result of a bold project involving four authors, two Indian and two...
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When it is done well, historical fiction can be a beautiful thing. The ‘boringness’ of names and dates and battles and ‘extent...
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Duckbill’s History Mystery series comes with an appropriate tagline, “Mysteries you’ll never find in history books”. Indeed, the things that...
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Having been part of the generation that grew up on a staple diet of Enid Blyton, one does sometimes miss a good old straightforward mystery story...
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At first glance, twelve-year-old Madhura’s life doesn’t seem all that bad. She lives in the prosperous city of Pataliputra, capital of the Mauryan...
READ MOREWhich came first: the chicken or the egg? Almost as difficult to answer, and with champions just as vocal on either side of the debate, is the...
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Anu Kumar’s A Chola Adventure catapults its reader back in time to 990 CE, Thanjavur. The prologue is an intriguing one: we’re introduced to...
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Some reviews are a real pleasure to write. For one thing, the book under review is very short, a picture book, really, which allows you to plunge...
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