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Tag: historical novel

  • Book review: Brothers at War (Empire of the Moghul, Book II)

    (Published in the Business Standard, March 2010. I met and liked Michael and Diana Preston, co-authors of the Empire of the Moghul series, but as is apparent, I wasn’t sold on the second volume. The Prestons have been travelling to India for over 30 years, and know their Mughals–but Humayun didn’t come to life for…

  • Book review: Wolf Hall

    (Published in the Business Standard, October 14, 2009) Wolf HallHilary MantelFourth EstatePOUNDS 7.99, 653 pages On June 30, 1540, a blacksmith’s son risen to power wrote in desperation to his king, Henry VIII of England: “I crye for mercye, mercye, mercye.” A month later, as Henry hastened to marry Catherine Howard, the fourth of his…