Book Reviews

Book Reviews
(Alphabetically arranged by author's last name)

The Children's Book: A.S. Byatt

Carmilla: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Her Fearful Symmetry: Audrey Niffenegger

One Amazing Thing: Chitra Banerjee Divakurni

Funny in Farsi: Firoozeh Dumas


The Birth of Venus: Sarah Dunant

Beautiful Thing: Sonia Faleiro

Sword of the Truth Series: Terry Goodkind

Dance Dance Dance: Haruki Murakami


A Case of Exploding Mangoes: Mohammed Hanif

Wolf of the Plains: Conn Iggulden

Curfewed Nights: Basharat Peer (written by Lado)


Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief: Rick Riordan

Shantaram: Gregory David Roberts


Luka and the Fire of Life: Salman Rushdie  

The Forty Rules of Love: Elif Shafak

Broken Verses: Kamila Shamsie

The Shadow Princess: Indu Sunderesan


The Agony and the Ecstacy: Irving Stone

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: Lynn Truss