Londonstani by Gautam Malkani
Reviewed by Partap Sur
This book portraits the life of young british asians against the background of a London subhurbs. It has a great plot exposing the taboos of traditional asians and the hardships occured by the young british asians....

Accidental Death of an Anachist by Dario Fo
Reviewed by Lina
Its a brilliant satire by italian author Dario Fo. Based on real events regarding the police and government corruption. Very funny and tragic story about 20th century madness....

Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher
Reviewed by Mikael
This ambitious study in which Guy Deutscher aims to unravel the mystery of how complex languages come to exist despite their constant decay. This is a brilliant and enlightening read....

Memoirs of an Egotist by Stenndhal
Reviewed by Klas
After reading this all other books seemed conventional & dull. Irony, sinerity, the mundane and the extraordinary mix in a series of seemingly random anecdotes and observations in a way that is as effortless as it is brilliant....

In Search Of England by Michael Wood
Reviewed by Alastair Bickley
More in the manner of Umberto Eco or Borges writers he continually invokes- than that of the conventional historian. Woods undertakes a surprising and gentle iconoclastic revision of english history and its prevailing myths, often focussing on an obscure life or place, a farm, a tract of woodland, an ancient...

Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reviewed by Lina
Its a vivid, absorbing magic tale about human nature and relationships. About love which can sometimes be strong enough to bind the lives of several people for more than 50 years....

Felicias Journey by William Trevor
Reviewed by Alastair
What happens when someone disappears from the face of the earth? Travor takes us into the darkness with the broadest of human sympathies, an acute eye for detail and refusal to sensationalise that serves to heighten the near-intolerable suspense. Outstanding in every respect, this acclaimed novel is perhaps the high...

The Fictions by Bruno Schultz
Reviewed by Mikael
The Narrative is spellbinding and the language is rich and wild. Especially his metaphors that are unprecedented in their haunting beauty....

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Reviewed by Klas
He is what humanity looks like when it is faltering and foolish and trying to rescue a few shreds of dignaty and privacy. The book is well produced and extremely funny....

The Castles of crossed dfestinies by Italo Calvino
Reviewed by Alastair
Brilliant and disturbing. Time is illusory, Calvino implies: life consists of an endless reshuffling of archetypes. All stories past, present and future are contained in tarot decks as individually we venture into woods, & collectively as a species dangerously alienated from the nature that bore us. Scarily prescient too momentous...

Awful lot of bubbly in Brazil by Alan Brazil
Reviewed by Partap
A great insight into one of Talksports most famous sons. A footballer whose career was cut short through injury and the career it created in the media. A well constructed autobiography which illustrates the making of this working class Glaswegian. A wounderful read for any sports fans....