Books

Centering a mystery series around a retired Mumbai policeman of unimpeachable honesty and integrity whose investigative sidekick happens to be a one-year-old elephant named Ganesh gifted to him by a friend by seem like an impossibly twee basis for some crime solving. But in every book of Vaseem Khan’s read Continue Reading

Ordinarily, having the fate of the entire galaxy thrust on your unwilling shoulders and having to stand up and fight rather than flee and hide may not seem like a whole lot of fun. Ask Luke, Han and Leia from Star Wars or any of the gang in Guardians of Continue Reading

When you have something good going on, change can be a very hard thing to deal with. That applies even when the change that comes along is eventually good, the product of life bestowing all kinds of happy eventualities on people who face great adversity and come out the other Continue Reading

There can surely no greater terror for a parent than coming out one day to find that someone has stolen your child right from under your nose in your very own home. This is exactly the kind of diabolically awful scenario which confronts one young parent in Dinuka McKenzie’s gripping Continue Reading

Life may not seem all that magical much of the time, largely because for all the beauty and romance it is capable of, there’s a great deal of pain and loss too. So overwhelming can that grief become that finding something wondrous in its midst can feel like an impossible Continue Reading

In a genre of well-mined tropes and clichés (many of them very well done it should be noted), it can be hard to find a truly original story in science fiction. But Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars, has managed it with impressive original and vivacious imagination, delivering one Continue Reading

Head over heart? Or vice versa? All of us tend to lean one way or the other, not necessarily wholly but to a sufficient enough extent that our decisions on what to do next in life or whom to see pivot on either a calm analysis of the evidence at Continue Reading

There is a log and stories tradition of aliens invading Earth. Regardless of the medium, they usually arrive in the skies above our blue ball of life, an armada of advanced technology in terrifyingly awe inspiring form, and variously proceed to attack/enslave/pretend to help while secretly destroying us. It’s big, Continue Reading

It’s a talented writer indeed who can take an appealing out-there premise and invest it with so much humanity that you forget how extraordinary the bedrock narrative of the novel is, consumed only the affectingly real story with which you have been gifted. The consummately good writer in this instance Continue Reading