Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart About the Novel: This debut novel won the 2020 Booker prize. When her philandering husband leaves, Agnes and her three children find themselves trapped in a mining town decimated by Thatcherism. As Agnes increasingly turns to alcohol for comfort, her children try their best to save her. Yet one […]
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath About the Poet: Sylvia Plath is one of the great, respected American poets of the 20th century. Remembered for her collections of poetry, especially The Colossus and Ariel, and her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, she has left behind a substantial body of work in spite of dying at the young age […]
Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte About the Novel: Emily Bronte's only novel is a rare attempt at a complex weave of human passion and fate in a timeless world. Wuthering Heights is a fiery Victorian novel of passion, betrayal, revenge and death set in the bleak Yorkshire Moors. Heathcliff and Catherine share a […]
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 4th April 2021 Presentation : Mohini Khot About the Author: John Steinbeck grew up in the Salinas county of California and wrote affectionately of it all his life. He worked on ranches during vacations as a young man and witnessed at first hand the hardships and loneliness of the […]
Falling Walls & MIrror Wandering by Upendranath Sharma About the Book: Falling Walls (2015) and In the City a MIrror Wandering (2019) follow the trials and tribulations of a young writer called Chetan as he navigates the cities of Jalandhar, Lahore and Shimla in the 1930s. About the Author: Upendranath Sharma "Ashk" (1910 - 1996) began his writing career with […]
Apeirogon by Colum McCann About the Novel: Apeirogon (long listed for the Booker Prize 2020) explores the conflict in the Middle East. The story follows two real life figures - Rami Elhanan, an Israeli graphic designer, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian scholar and previous political prisoner. The book consists of 1001 short sections and […]
Gyaanadab & The Book Club Pune presents ABOUT THE BOOK Singing in the Dark is described as “an anthology of poetry under Lockdown”. It incorporates compositions of contemporary Indian poets. It is published by Penguin / Random House ABOUT THE EDITORS Satchidanandan is a leading Indian poet. His poems have been translated into many […]
James Wales: Artist and Antiquarian in the time of Peshwa Sawai Madhavrao About the Book: This book allows us to enter and witness late 18th century India through the journals and paintings left behind by an observant artist and antiquarian. James Wales came to India and developed a passion for the antiquities of the country. He left […]
About the Author: Justin Marozzi read History at Cambridge. A former Financial Times foreign correspondent, he writes regularly for The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Spectator where he was a contributing Editor until disappearing to Central Asia to research this book. About the Book: Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the […]
