Posts Tagged ‘Salman Rushdie’
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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
A great big roller-coaster of a read – Midnight’s Children is an exuberant, heartbreaking love letter to India. Rusdhie writes unflinchingly of this turbulent nation of extremes. It’s a postmodern, postcolonial magic realist novel influenced by Tristram Shandy (which I’ve never managed to read). It’s a sprawling account of the life of Saleem Sinai, born ...
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Winter is coming
I should love winter – I’m a knitter, after all – and winter is all about hand-knits. I prep for it, making socks, fingerless mittens, shawls and my husband’s annual jumper. In early autumn, I revive my sourdough and start investigating my baking books. The house begins to smell cosily of soup, roasts and bread. ...