Schmoozing Over Coffee: Historical Fiction

The Mermaid and Mrs.Hancock - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

May 05, 2019
By Samriddha Bhattacharya
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Set in the Eighteenth century Georgian London, The Mermaid and Mrs.Hancock is a languid but beautiful read. You cannot race through it. You have to take your own sweet time. Mermaids have always been an object of fancy...

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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

March 16, 2018
By Samriddha Bhattacharya
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Sometimes words betray us when we try to describe a book. The best of us may take a while to do some justice to the novel that left us speechless. Sometimes, you wan't to tell people how you...

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The Lives Of Others by Neel Mukherjee - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

March 14, 2017
By Samriddha Bhattacharya
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Title : The Lives of OthersAuthor : Neel MukherjeeSOC Rating : 5/5Genre : Historical Fiction/FictionPublisher : W.W Norton Company and Penguin Random HousePublishing Year : 2015#Pages : 528 Sunil Gangopadhay should have met Neel Mukherjee. He would have...

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Heart wrenching tales - The Lowland & My Nightingale - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

September 29, 2016
By Samriddha Bhattacharya
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The two books I read recently have a common thread in them - war and love, and no other book has left a greater impact on me than these two. The wars are of great significance - one...