As a competitive sport, Quidditch is broken. Those of you who have read the Harry Potter novels will know that catching the elusive winged ball earns the Seeker’s team 150 points and ends the game. This renders everything else that happens in the arena irrelevant, and while the books do a good job of maintaining […]
Over 30 years ago, I read Helen Hooven Santmyer’s And Ladies of the Club, a riveting book about life in small-town Ohio from the post-Civil War period to the early 1930s. Through her attention to detail and keen eye for customs and traditions, Santmyer created an era that seemed so far removed from the late […]
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is just around the corner for PS5 and PS4, and excitement around the game is pretty muted. However, the developers may have just sealed the deal, and all it took was a brilliant Easter egg. PS1 Hagrid, also known as Haggord or simply Meme Hagrid, will feature in the multiplayer sports […]
Author Pat Barker continues her quest to give voice to women’s stories from ancient Greece… fiction 1. The Voyage Home by Pat Barker is published in hardback by Hamish Hamilton and costs £20 (e-book £10.99). Available now Fresh from the printers – the first copies of PAT BARKER’s The Voyage Home – will be published […]
It’s time again to let an archaic Commodore PET computer pick a random page from the book of 2005. The worst cars in the worldwritten by Craig Cheetham, and then defend and make amends for the car featured on this page, because I maintain that Mr. Cheetham has not written a book about the world’s […]
Historical novels are the most difficult genre, requiring both the rigor of the scholar and the imagination of the fabulist. In The East Indian: A Novel (HarperCollins India), author Brinda Charry has done the former perfectly, but played it safe with the latter. Nonetheless, she has produced an interesting and worthwhile—if not spectacular—book. The “hook” […]
Historical novels are the most difficult genre, requiring both the rigor of the scholar and the imagination of the fabulist. In The East Indian: A Novel (HarperCollins India), author Brinda Charry has done the former perfectly, but played it safe with the latter. Nonetheless, she has produced an interesting and worthwhile—if not spectacular—book. The “hook” […]
It is not just a stereotype – There is hard data that shows Men don’t read much fiction. But why is the genre not as attractive to men as it is to women, and what does that say about today’s gender norms? Today on excitementElamin talks to Nathan Maharaj, Director of Content Marketing at Rakuten […]
They come from the same author, are set in the same world and even have the same fans, but the Lord of the Rings series differs from its predecessor The Hobbit in a few key ways. Published 17 years before The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit is lighter in both mood and adventure. Rather […]
Siddharth N. Vijayaraghavan is an Indian-born, Singapore- and India-educated writer. He is currently pursuing his Masters (integrated) in English from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The book Empire of the Cholas is a historical novel. The author describes his personal feelings while writing this book: The temple or the characters depicted […]
