The Literary Circle – Book Reviews and Book Recommendations

Author: Yasunari Kawabata Translator: Edward G. Seidensticker Publisher: Penguin UK Publishing Date: 6 January 2011 Pages: 224 Languages: Japanese and English Country: Japan Rating: 4.5/5 “It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired...

Author: Yoko Ogawa Publisher: Vintage Publishing Date: 1 August 2020 Pages: 288 Language: Japanese and English Translator: Stephen Snyder Country: Japan Rating: 4.5/5 “My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains....

Editor: Aruni Kashyap Publisher: HarperCollins India Publishing Date: 25 February 2020 Pages: 248 Language: Assamese, Bodo and English Country: India Rating: 3.5/5 "The curtain is open and, in the open window, the moon is framed. Why does the sight of the...

Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Publishing Date: 30 June 2020 Pages: 276 Language: English Country: Mexico Rating: 3.5/5 “It was the house that disfigured the land.” I must confess I read Mexican Gothic purely because of it's cover. Yes, I...

Author: Anthony Horowitz Publisher: Century Publishing Date: 15 September 2020 Pages: 608 Language: English Country: Greece/ England Rating: 4.5/5 “Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible.” I was extremely excited...

Author: Arshia Sattar Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing Date: 5 October 2019 Language: English Pages: 145 Country: India Rating: 4/5 "A God who can forget his divinity in order to show us the enormously tragic consequences of our frailties is surely far more...

Author: John Zubrzycki Publisher: Picador Publishing Date: 30 January 2012 Language: English Pages: 400 Country: India I had an interest in reading The Last Nizam due to my connection with Hyderabad. If you are following me on Instagram you might...

Author: Lucy Foley Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing Date: 15 February 2019 Pages: 400 Language: English Country: Scotland Rating: 4.5/5 “Some people, given just the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don’t need much encouragement at all to...

Author: Sophie Hannah Publisher: Harper Collins Publishing Date: 20 August 2020 Language: English Pages: 352 Country: England Rating: 3/5 Hercule Poirot is perhaps the world’s most beloved detective. Agatha Christie detested the eccentric Belgian detective but Poirot has a place of...

Author: Vikram Seth and others Publisher: Aleph Book Company Publishing Date: 20 April 2019 Language: English Pages: 152 Country: India Rating: 3.5/5 Love and Lust: Stories and Essays is a part of Aleph Book Company's Olio series. The word 'Olio' means...