The Anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company, by William Dalrymple.
Anything good to say?
Nemesis – Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens, by David Stuttard.
Hard to imagine that a scholarly book about a 5th century BC Athenian could be unputdownable, but it is.
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie.
If this isn't one of the best books of the twentieth century, I don't know what is.
Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom
The Key to the Kingdom
Hunger Mountain, by David Hinton
A small treasure come to light.
Galapagos (and other asides) by Kurt Vonnegut
‘One time, on his twenty-first birthday, one of my three adopted sons, who was about to leave for the Peace Corps in the Amazon Rain Forest, said to me, “You know–you’ve never hugged me.” So I hugged him. We hugged each other. It was like rolling around on a rug with a Great Dane we used to have.’
