Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
As a keen traveller myself, when I heard about Eat, Pray, Love and how it depicted one woman’s journey through Italy, India and Bali I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy. My step-sister first...
View ArticleReview: The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s most famous novel, The Secret Garden, is a story I know very well, having grown up watching the 1993 film adaptation with Maggie Smith. Thus when I began reading the novel,...
View ArticleReview: A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
Ever since I went backpacking round India on my gap year, I’ve had something of a fascination with the country, and have vowed many times to return. Thus it was with great interest that I began the...
View ArticleReview: Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram is one of those books that I’ve meant to read for years. I don’t remember when I first heard about it, simply that it’s been recommended to me a number of times, particularly since starting...
View ArticleReview: The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Recently I began working at the publishers Bloombsury – having interned there many moons ago, being offered a job in the digital marketing department was something of a dream come true for me. On my...
View ArticleReview: Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
When deciding which books to take on holiday to Australia with me, it was harder than I thought to select a couple from the BBC Top 100. Most of the books I have left to read from the list of the...
View ArticleReview: Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Life of Pi is one of those books that’s been on my radar for a number of years now. Having won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 and been recommended to me by multiple friends I certainly didn’t mean to...
View ArticleDealing with Death While Abroad
This story is an old one; it happened before the days of Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook. Contact was limited to the garish lights of internet cafes, where faded notes were exchanged for fuzzy phone...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....