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PHIL CRAIG 1945: The Reckoning. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

PHIL CRAIG 1945: The Reckoning. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 3 Jun 2025 | Non-fiction | 1 comment

This conclusion to Phil Craig’s Finest Hour trilogy shows how, far from marking an end to war and suffering, 1945 created more of it. The world is imperfect, the relationships between and within nations held together by decaying, infected band aids and fraying string....
AMITAV GHOSH Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s hidden histories. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

AMITAV GHOSH Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s hidden histories. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 7 Nov 2024 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Award-winning novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to China. In researching his Ibis Trilogy novels – Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) – which...
BEM LE HUNTE Elephants with Headlights. Reviewed by Ann Skea

BEM LE HUNTE Elephants with Headlights. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 7 Apr 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

Bem Le Hunte’s third novel explores what happens when Australian mores meet Indian traditions, and old ways collide with new. Siddharth is a successful Delhi businessman. The sort of person who, as Guruji sees, is keen to make it clear that: … he didn’t lead a life of...
Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Straits Settlement. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Straits Settlement. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 21 Jul 2016 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

A third Le Fanu crime novel in under two years will keep Brian Stoddart’s growing army of readers happy. When the story opens in the 1920s we find Chris Le Fanu undertaking higher duties as Acting Inspector-General of Police for the Madras Presidency with continuing...
Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Madras Miasma. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Madras Miasma. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 9 Jul 2015 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

Murder, drugs, sex, politics, history and geography provide the substance of Brian Stoddart’s fast-paced first novel set in India. In 1920 a young woman’s body is found floating in the ‘putrid shallows’ of the Buckingham Canal in Madras: She lay on her back,...
             

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