ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie became, and still remains, the best-selling mystery writer of all time. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Christie is also credited with the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap. Her books have sold over a billion copies Read more…

Books have been my best friends since the time I could read. My very first book was my aunt’s gift to me on my fifth birthday. It was a fairy tale book. Of all the gifts I had received in my childhood, that book was – and still remains – my favorite. The very evening Read more…

Many a time in life I regret not having pursued a fine art. Then, the very next moment, I offer myself the consolation that perhaps all my creative energies were meant to be channelized into playing, not with the strings of a violin or the reeds of a harmonium, or with the lines of portrait Read more…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.K. Rowling needs no introduction. She is, of course, the author of the famous Harry Potter series. She was born on July 31, 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales. Rowling conceived the idea of Harry Potter in Read more…

I’ve been an introvert all my life. You know how kids have the ability of becoming friends almost instantly? Well, I didn’t have that. Instead, I had the ability of becoming friends with books. I’d talk to the characters in my Noddy Pop-up book or travel to the mysterious side of the world, to Wonderland Read more…

I never had a knack for reading books. Even during my school days, I used to cram reference books and then sit exams. For me, reading a book was equivalent to taking sleeping pills, the moment I opened a book, my seemingly endless voyage never quite made it past the very first page. Somehow, I Read more…