BOOK MARKING 2021

From the return of big names to Covid becoming a literary protagonist, 2021 had something for us all

- Bhavya Dore

Last year’s most anticipated publishing event was perhaps the unveiling of Sally Rooney’s latest novel. Beautiful World, Where Are You joined a roster of old heavyweights returning with new work: Maggie Nelson, Colm Tóibín, Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie. South Africa’s Damon Galgut picked up the Booker, fiction’s top honour, for The Promise, his decades-long multigenerational story of a white family during and after apartheid.

Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster Speaking to the people who made Satya a landmark film, Uday Bhatia tells the incredible story of how it all came together, how it drew from the gangster and street film traditions, and why it went on to become a modern classic. Shop Now