Books

While we all love an entertaining meet-cute of two people who we know are destined together forever after having never known each other existed – the sense of romantic fate and destiny is palpably sublime and awww-worthy – there’s also something deliciously enticing about a couple who have been friends Continue Reading

It is possible to find yourself in the most banal of circumstances, but the truth is, most of the big epiphanic moments usually only take place when you’re plucked out of your day-to-day existence and thrust, whether by accident or design, into somewhere wholly and extraordinarily different. For most of Continue Reading

It’s a tricky business delivering up mystery and explanation in one tight sci-fi storytelling package. Tip too towards the mystery and you end up with Solaris or Arrival, both fine films in their own way which are hampered by the fact that they deliver up far more questions than answers Continue Reading

Picking up a book that is meant to be the next big thing, the next Lessons in Chemistry or Where the Crawdads Sing or Still Life, is always a little fraught. You want to believe with all your literary-loving heart that the novel will be every bit as good as Continue Reading

There’s something innately beautiful about each and every book that TJ Klune releases. That beauty comes from the fact that he infuses every single novel, from The House on the Cerulean Sea to Under the Whispering Door to Wolfsong, all of which occupy a quirky, cosy slice of fantasy-goth/dystopian-apocalyptic literature, Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTAgent Miriam Randle works for LifeTime, a private law enforcement agency that undertakes short-term time travel to erase crimes before they occur. Haunted by the memory of her twin brother’s unsolved murder at the age of six, Miriam thinks of herself as Myriad — an incarnation of the many lives Continue Reading

Reading a romantic comedy is an almost sure-fire way to feel better about the world. What felt bleak now has hues of hope and vital possibility and that lingering sense you have that nothing good can come of this messy business of living suddenly feels faintly ridiculous. I mean, look Continue Reading

One of the biggest tricks of any massively overarching space opera premise is finding a way to deliver on it. Sure, the back blurb of the novel can sound like a thousand big and impressive elements, and hopefully some small and intimate (but emotionally powerful) human moments too, coming together Continue Reading

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