BOOKS AMEYA

Book review of IAS Officer Ravindra Kumar's debut book Many Everests

Many Everests | Book Review | 2017 | Ravindra Kumar

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravindra Kumar was born in 1981 in Bihar, India. He started his career in the shipping industry. He qualified for the Civil Services Examination in 2011 and joined the administrative services as an IAS officer. In 2013, Kumar became the first IAS officer and seafarer from India to climb the Mount Everest. Read more…

Book review of Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore | Book Review | 2002 | Haruki Murakami

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author born in Kyoto, Japan. He is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. His preferred genres include magical realism, surrealism, fiction, realism, post-modernism, picaresque, and Bildungsroman. His notable works are Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark, What I Talk Read more…

Book review of Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah

Dune Messiah | Book Review | 1969 | Frank Herbert

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frank Herbert was an American science-fiction writer. He was born on October 8, 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, US. He is especially well known for his novel Dune, which was published in 1965, and its five sequels. Apart from being a world-renowned novelist, Herbert was also a print journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological Read more…

Book review of Frank Herbert's timeless sci-fi novel, Dune

Dune | Book Review | 1965 | Frank Herbert

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frank Herbert was an American science-fiction writer. He was born on October 8, 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, US. He is especially well known for his novel Dune, which was published in 1965, and its five sequels. Apart from being a world-renowned novelist, Herbert was also a print journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological Read more…

In this week's book review, Ameya takes a look at Michael Ondtaaje award-winning novel, The English Patient

The English Patient | Book Review | 1992 | Michael Ondaatje

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Canadian poet, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. Ondaatje was born in 1943 in Sri Lanka. He was raised partly in Sri Lanka and England before he emigrated to Canada in 1962. He has published many critically acclaimed works throughout his literary career. Some of his award-winning works Read more…

Book review of Sidney Sheldon's The Sands of Time

The Sands of Time | Book Review | 1988 | Sidney Sheldon

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sidney Sheldon was an American author, director and producer, best known for his exciting potboiler novels like The Other Side of Midnight, A Stranger in the Mirror, Rage of Angels, and Master of the Game. A majority of his novels were adapted as movies and TV series. Before he became an author, Read more…

In this week's book review, Ameya takes a look at Devdutt Pattanaik's Olympus, which is a comprehensive account of all the major and minor events in Greek mythology

Olympus | Book Review | 2016 | Devdutt Pattanaik

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Devdutt Pattanaik is a well-known Indian mythologist, author, illustrator and speaker. Pattanaik was born in Mumbai on December 11, 1970. He did his MBBS from the Grant Medical College in Mumbai. He became a full-time author after working in the healthcare industry for fourteen years. Pattanaik has authored many books in the Read more…

In this week's book review, Ameya presents its take on Sudeep Nagarkar's contemporary romance novel, A Second Chance

A Second Chance | Book Review | 2020 | Sudeep Nagarkar

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sudeep Nagarkar is a well-known Indian author, with twelve bestselling novels to his credit. He featured on the Forbes longlist of the most influential celebrities for two consecutive years. Nagarkar also received many awards such as Celebrity Author 2013 from Amazon, and Youth Icon of the Year at the Zee Awards in Read more…

Book review of Liz Moore's Long Bright River, a crime novel based on the drug-affected town of Kensington in Philadelphia

Long Bright River | Book Review | Liz Moore | 2020

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Liz Moore is an American author who is known for her thriller and mystery novels. Her first novel, The Words of Every Song, was published in 2007 and was selected for the Borders Original Voices Award. Her second novel, Heft, was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and went on Read more…