Raj Kamal Jha on She Will Build Him A City
The National, March 2015 It’s interview day with the Indian novelist Raj Kamal Jha, and time to cast an eye over The Indian Express, the newspaper of which he is chief editor. Amid news of […]
BOOKS
Revival by Stephen King
The Observer It’s billed as possessing “the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written” – some claim given this is the man who wrote Carrie, 58 novels and 40 years ago. Actually, Revival’s ending […]
Toddlers: swiping rather than reading
Vision, February 2015 It’s become one of the strangest phenomena of our times. Leave a tablet or a smartphone lying around a toddler and not only will they be intrigued by its bright colours, they’ll […]
Lauren Oliver on the rise of YA
Vision, February 2015 The general consensus is “young adults” – broadly defined as being 14+ – spend their entire lives online, prodding at their tablets, phones and laptops. But the figures suggest otherwise. Actually, they’re […]
Ann Morgan reads the world in a year
The National, February 2015 As New Year’s Resolutions go, it was an impressive one. In 2012, blogger Ann Morgan set about reading a book from every one of the planet’s 196 independent countries. She’d already […]