Neema Shah’s debut Kololo Hill, set in the year 1972 in Uganda and later in England, is a fictional work inspired by real-life…
Dark Rivers to Cross by Lynne Reeves is an emotionally thrilling dark mystery centred around a mother who will sacrifice everything to keep…
Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray is a bitter-sweet story about relationships, choices, and decisions. Poignant and funny in equal measure, it is a…
The Girl Who Lost A Leopard by Nizrana Farook is a fast-paced, middle-grade adventure novel set in the jungles of Serendib (the older…
Fame is a two-edged sword. While it brings joy and happiness, it also has the power of ruining one’s life. Vani’s Seconds Later,…
‘Name Place Animal Thing’ is surely a curious title, and I picked it up solely for the curiosity and nostalgia it evoked. The…
Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World is a powerful commentary on forced migration, displacement and occupation. True to the title, it is the…
Vignesh Sivasankar’s The Ten Commandments of Evil is a collection of horror stories, inspired by real-life incidents. These are the Devil’s version of…
I recently read When Devil Married God: An anthology of stories by Shelly Sharma, a book I received as a prize via Penmancy,…
Is it possible to overcome guilt, especially when it is the guilt of having failed one of your own? It is this gnawing…