The George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) took home The International Excellence Awards 2018: The Literary Festival Award at The London Book Fair 2018. The results were announced during the International Excellence Awards ceremony on the opening night… Read More
Category: Books
What a Rani of a Jaya Devi
RAJ by Gita Mehta is a gripping read filled with the glow of India’s royalty’s wealth – of purse and mind. Ms Mehta starts her story in 1897, when India was under Queen Victoria’s rule.… Read More
Watered-down Hidden Figures of the space race
HAVING read Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same title before seeing Hidden Figures on the big screen, I found the movie offers a simpler portrayal of the African-American women mathematicians’ roles in the great… Read More
A Long Way Home and the Oscars 2017
A LONG Way Home went from documentary to book to film, but I found Saroo Brierly’s story well worth a sit-down. The book is engrossing. Written almost like reportage, I followed Saroo (really Sheru as… Read More