Ami’s page-turning novel set in contemporary London— love, dreams and illusions on a London bus,heading for Boundary Road— has been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Sunny Singh who founded the Jhalak called the chosen books “necessary, urgent and timeless”. Up for the Jhalak Prize are Noreen Masud for A Flat Place (Penguin), Yepoka Yeebo for Anansi’s Gold: The […]

‘Three recent releases set during or just after the Second World War are variably free-spirited fictionalizations of true events. The standout among these is Robin Scott-Elliot’s Sweet Skies. Between June 1948 and September 1949 the Luftbrücke, or Berlin airlift, kept the residents of West Berlin supplied with food and fuel after the Soviets blockaded the city. Scott-Elliot’s […]