Age of Vice: 'The story is unputdownable . . . This is how it's done when it's done exactly right' Stephen King Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47 Ice Second-hand Time
When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics Age of Vice: 'The story is unputdownable . . . This is how it's done when it's done exactly right' Stephen King Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47 Ice
Second-hand Time When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics Age of Vice: 'The story is unputdownable . . . This is how it's done when it's done exactly right' Stephen King Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47
Ice Second-hand Time When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics Age of Vice: 'The story is unputdownable . . . This is how it's done when it's done exactly right' Stephen King

Deepti Kapoor Selects Five Novels that Represent the Ancient and Modern Meanings of the Word Vice

By Little, Brown Book Group

Deepti Kapoor Selects Five Novels that Represent the Ancient and Modern Meanings of the Word Vice

By Little, Brown Book Group

Several people coming to my new novel through the title alone have assumed it concerns a sinful, glamorous kind of vice - drugs, sex, booze - rather than a play on the Hindu cosmological term for the current age of humanity, an age of corruption and despair. In this case I thought it appropriate to curate a reading list that contains both!

Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47

Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47

Georges Simenon

£8.99 £8.54

Simenon’s detective stories are concise pleasures played out in a shaded world of greys.

Ice

Ice

Anna Kavan

£8.99 £8.54

Either a metaphor for climate change, or the author’s own heroin addiction, or both, this slipstream gumshoe novel was well ahead of its time - a bright shard of obsessive doom.

Second-hand Time

Second-hand Time

Svetlana Alexievich

£14.99 £14.24

t contains the whole mysterious universe of evil and humanity in a multitude of voices.

When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

Milan Vaishnav

£27.50

A more in-depth resource on India’s political economy by academic Vaishnav. As the subtitle succinctly explains, it examines the interplay between money and muscle in Indian politics.