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“The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant”, by Stephen Donaldson, is a series of adventures of Thomas Covenant in the world called “The Land”. This series is quite popular and the writer is compared with J R R Tolkien at his best. The writer grew up in India, where his father worked with lepers. This can be seen in the way he ... Read More »

In the first segment of reviewing the short stories from the book titled “For your eyes only”, we have covered 4 stories: A View To A Kill For Your Eyes Only Quantum of Solace Risico Now let us move ahead. Read More »

As it is a well known fact that Ian Fleming wrote James Bond stuff in the format of short stories and then novels, based on his real life experiences and mixing them with the fantasy. Some of the people he met in his real life also left remarkable impact on the characters of his books (including James Bond himself). For ... Read More »

“The Miguel Street”, third fictional work by Sir V S Naipaul (after The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira) was first published in 1959 and won the Somerset Maughm Award in 1961. The book is a collection of the prose pictures of various characters living on the Miguel Street in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The story is told in ... Read More »

Published in 1958, “The suffrage of Elvira” is second fiction novel by Sir V S Naipaul (after The Mystic Masseur) and is set in the colonial world of Trinidad. The story revolves around election in the small town of Elvira portraying variety of characters, each eccentric in its own way but ruthlessly real and tells the story of the transition ... Read More »

This first work of fiction by V S Naipaul was published in 1957 wherein he introduced the readers to the world of Trinidad in West Indies featuring the character of a young man called Ganesh Ramsumair, who by combination of luck and some cunning achieved wealth, success and political power to become one of the most popular men in Trinidad. ... Read More »