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When you think of the end of the world, you picture it happening in colours bold and wild, events unfolding on screens before you, death and destruction beckoning, with streets filled with screaming people and sights beyond horrific imagining. But in Rumaan Alam’s intimately unnerving and gloriously beautifully-written novel, Leave Continue Reading

Being different is wonderful, amazing and thrilling. But when you are growing up, still trying find that authentic sense of self, it can be excruciatingly awful too, especially if you are alone in your arduous growing up journey and also beset by the usual unthinking torch-and-pitchforks mobs of idiotic bullies Continue Reading

Flights of imagination are gloriously good and wonderful things. Flights of imagination that come with a fully-realised, beautifully rendered world, compelling characters and a bravely moralistic backbone that isn’t afraid to tackle some substantial issues are even better. Something like Tom Miller’s exquisitely good, The Philosopher’s Flight, a novel that Continue Reading