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11/07/2013

"The most entertaining history of the Ashes ever written!" Yes, we think that Simon Brigg's book Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps is just that. Check out our review.

Yes, we know that heading sounds pretty hefty. But then, we really could not find any other words to describe the latest edition of Simon Briggs' simply ...

05/07/2013

An offer that no cricket follower can resist - teh 1870 edition of Wisden is available for free reading on Google Play. The very first report refers to WG Grace!

Ask any cricket follower about the most important book in the game, and it is a fair chance that their answer will be Wisden. Started by John Wisden in...

04/07/2013

Our review of Pierre Lemaitre's Alex, one of the best thrillers of the year so far. And it introduces a new detective too!

It happens like clockwork every few months these days. Or anyway, ever since Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson showed that stunning crime writing could a...

03/07/2013

And the prices of e-books keep going down - now we have Amish's Shiva Trilogy available for as little as 309 on Amazon Kindle. Worth a look?

We keep getting amazed at the prices being offered by Amazon's Kindle e-book store. Our latest surprise came in the form of the pricing for Amish's bes...

01/07/2013

One of the greatest books on the Rolling Stones - the Rolling Stones 50, now on Kindle at a third of its print price. With videos and special image gallery too. What a deal for music lovers!

We have been observing how the prices of e-books on Amazon's Kindle Store have been steeply declining of late. And yesterday yet another staggering dea...

28/06/2013

There are some phenomenal sequels of popular series coming up in the coming months, coming from the likes of Stephen King, Ruth Rendell and Ian Rankin. We look at eight of the best.

The year 2013 seems to be one for sequels. We have already seen Robert Langdon and Theodore Boone make appearances, and if the news trickling into our inbo...

25/06/2013

Three Jo Nesbo books for Rs 177 each. Pretty awesome for anyone who loves Scandinavian crime writing.

When it comes to thrillers from Scandinavia, there are many who believe that Jo Nesbo is in a league of his own. The Norwegian author is best known for h...

24/06/2013

And the Kindle bargains keep getting better. Yours for free today, arguably the best book on Narendra Modi - Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times. 400 pages plus. Free for today. Pretty much a must-download.

Love him. Hate him. But if you have any interest whatsoever in national politics, you ignore Narendra Modi at your peril. The man who has been Chief Mini...

23/06/2013

A cricket classic which costs Rs 779, now available for Rs 157 for Kindle users. Can you still resist the lure of the e-book?

When it comes to classic cricket books, Wisden Cricketer's compilation titled Flying Stumps and Metal Bats would come near the top of most cricket follower...

22/06/2013

"Vintage Wine, Plastic Bottle, Crazy Price!" - We review Talking Cricket, which contains interviews with some of cricket's greatest legends.

More than thirty years ago, English cricketer Peter Walker penned one of cricket's most memorable books, called Cricket Conversations. As the name indicate...

20/06/2013

Miranda Priestly and Andrea Sachs are back. Yes, Lauren Wiesberger has written a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada and it is hitting Indian bookstores on June 25. http://bookwag.com/2013/06/mirandas-back-sequel-to-devil-wears-prada-to-arrive-on-june-25/

19/06/2013

All the Miss Marple stories and thirty others by Agatha Christie. From Harper and Collins on Kindle. For Rs 14! If that's not an awesome deal, we need a new dictionary.

There are few characters that can match the fame of Agatha Christie's iconic Jane Marple - best known as Miss Marple - in the world of detective fiction. F...

18/06/2013

To thrill someone's nerves is great, to make them laugh, even better. Here are six authors who do both equally well. Our list of authors who provide thrills and giggles in equal measure.

Writing a thriller is no easy task. Blending it with the best medicine of all - laughter - is still more difficult. How on earth can you blend crime and co...

16/06/2013

It continues to rain freebies for Kindle users. For free download - Vaibhav Purandare's very good biography of Sachin Tendulkar.

He may have amassed more international runs than any other cricketer at any time, but Sachin Tendulkar has been poorly served by the sports writer commun...

15/06/2013

Amazon gives Kindle users a super bonus for the weekend - Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is available for free download just for today! http://bookwag.com/2013/06/kindle-freebie-stephen-coveys-seven-habits-classic-for-free-download-today/

We had told you that Kindle would be offering a free bestselling e-book for download every day for two weeks a few days ago. And today, it is offerin...

14/06/2013

"It has been a long time since a murder mystery made us laugh so much." Our review of The Reluctant Detective by Kiran Manral.

Murder, a housewife caught up in the middle of it, police, foul play, dastardly plot...those seem to be the ingredients of a typical run of the mill thri...

13/06/2013

Imagine a bookstore giving away a bestseller free of cost every day! Well, that is what Amazon is doing in its "Free Kindle E-book Fortnight" - Kindle users can download a book free of cost every day for two weeks.

For e-book lovers in India, it does not really get better than this. For two weeks, starting from today , Kindle users will be able to download a popular...

11/06/2013

We have read our share of Zombie books, and this one will come right on top of the heap. Seldom have the undead seemed so...real. We reviewd World War Z, the book on which the high-profile Hollywood film is based.

When you think of books about zombies and the undead, the last thing you expect is reportage. If there are zombies and dead men walking, there should b...