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!
Age of Vice: 'The story is unputdownable . . . This is how it's done when it's done exactly right' Stephen King
Deepti Kapoor
£20.00 £19.00
Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47
Georges Simenon
£8.99 £8.54Simenon’s detective stories are concise pleasures played out in a shaded world of greys.
Ice
Anna Kavan
£8.99 £8.54Either 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
Svetlana Alexievich
£14.99 £14.24t contains the whole mysterious universe of evil and humanity in a multitude of voices.
When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics
Milan Vaishnav
£27.50A 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.