Books


Heart Tantrums by Aisha Sarwari

By Mina Malik

Sarwari lays it all bare in this clear-eyed memoir about the trials of her marriage, within which the lines between mother, partner, caregiver devolved into a messy blur

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

by Rafia Asim

Orbital, the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize, invites us to explore our fragility as human beings and bear witness to the wondrous planet we call home.

A Scandal for the Pages

by Mina Malik

Imtiaz and Masood-Khan have not only painstakingly recreated the Mustafa Zaidi murder case in their book Society Girl, but also the social milieu of Karachi and Lahore in the 70s

Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam

by Taha Kehar

The intricately plotted novel departs from the usual preoccupations and motifs of a Partition novel, and offers the reader something new

The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

by Madeeha Maqbool

The book is a love letter to ancient Indian civilisations, but fails to consider its India’s current Saffron-saturated context