There are sighting all over the city—these slim, smart-looking, young women in khaki, guarding the women’s compartment in local trains, onbandobast duty at rallies, pacifying female complainants at the police station.…

Stormy Weather Florida is known as the pensioners’ paradise, where elderly people retire, to get the benefits of its beaches and warm weather. However in Lauren Groff’s book, made up of…

Random Acts Of Cruelty Kristen Roupenian’s extraordinary short story Cat Person, published in the New Yorker, was so popular, that she followed it up with a collection of twelve witty and wicked stories,…

A Game Of Chance Heads You Win, Jeffrey Archer’s first standalone novel after the sprawling seven-part Clifton Chronicles, is also an epic set in three countries spanning several decades. In 1968, a…

When Duty Calls Fiona Barton’s third novel, The Suspect, also has as it protagonist, a senior and seasoned reporter, Kate Waters, only this time, she is on both sides of a…

Love, Lies and Suspense For Sujoy Ghose, whose biggest hit so far has been Kahaani, the Spanish film The Invisible Guest (Oriol Paulo, 2016) , must have been an attractive project to remake. …

Ghetto Girl The Hate U Give, the first novel by Angie Thomas, a scathing account of racism, seen from the point of view of a teenage black girl, was a…

There was a short story, read long ago, in which a woman wants to take up a job. She gets one to run a crèche, so she has to hire…

Girl In The Cold War At the best of times, it would be difficult, if not impossible, for a woman to get into the murky all-male world of espionage. And…

Perilous Polly Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s twenty-third novel, Sunburn, is a twisty-turny romantic thriller, with a beautiful and sexy redheaded protagonist, who, after a bad marriage, decides to take control of her destiny,…