BOOKS AMEYA

Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Life | Book Review | 2007 | Kahlil Gibran & Neil Douglas-Klotz

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and visual artist. He was born in 1883 in Ottoman Syria (modern-day Lebanon) and emigrated to the United States in 1895 with his mother and siblings. At the age of fifteen, he was sent back to Beirut to study at Collège de la Sagesse. He Read more…

A Flicker in the Dark book review on Ameya

A Flicker in the Dark | Book Review | 2022 | Stacy Willingham

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stacy Willingham is an up-and-coming thriller writer who made her debut with the book A Flicker in the Dark. Before becoming a published author, Willingham worked as a copywriter. She did her Bachelor’s in Magazine Journalism and has also worked as a brand strategist. Her passion for writing began as early as Read more…

Pachinko book review on Ameya

Pachinko | Book Review | 2017 | Min Jin Lee

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Min Jin Lee is a Korean-American author. She was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1968. Her family moved to the USA in 1976 when she was seven. She completed her BA from Yale College and studied law at the Georgetown University Law Centre. She worked as a corporate lawyer for two Read more…

Sense and Sensibility book review on Ameya

Sense and Sensibility | Book Review | 1811 | Jane Austen

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jane Austen was an eighteenth-century English author, though she gained most of her popularity in the twentieth century. Austen’s works are considered classics today. Her novels are women-centric and always seem to highlight the societal issues of the era by depicting ordinary people in everyday settings. Austen’s novels are also known for Read more…

Book review of The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

The Cousins | Book Review | 2020 | Karen M. McManus

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Karen M. McManus is an American author who writes young adult thrillers. McManus published her first book in 2017. Titled One Of Us Is Lying, the novel became an instant New York Times bestseller and brought McManus in the global limelight. The book remains her most renowned work to date. The book Read more…

Book review of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Tattooist of Auschwitz | Book Review | 2018 | Heather Morris

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Heather Morris is a New Zealand-born author. In 1971, Morris moved to Melbourne, where she met her future husband. In 1986, she decided to study further. She completed her BA in 1991 with a major in Political Science. From 1995 to 2017, Morris worked in the Social Work Department at Monash Medical Centre Read more…

King of Kings book review

King of Kings | Book Review | 2019 | Wilbur Smith & Imogen Robertson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wilbur Smith was a South African-British novelist. He was born in Zambia in 1933. Smith specialized in historical fiction, writing about the international involvement in South Africa. He began his career as an accountant. However, after the astounding success of his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, he decided to pursue Read more…

Fresh Water for Flowers book review on Ameya

Fresh Water for Flowers | Book Review | 2020 | Valérie Perrin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Fresh Water for Flowers is a story about happiness, written by Valérie Perrin. Perrin is a French author with a few books under her belt. Her first book was Les Oubliés du dimanche (The Forgotten Sunday), published in 2015. She has also written Changer l’eau des fleurs, published in 2018. This was Read more…

The Jim Corbett Omnibus book review

The Jim Corbett Omnibus | Book Review | 1991 | Jim Corbett

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward James ‘Jim’ Corbett was an India-born British hunter-and-tracker-turned-naturalist and author. Corbett was born in Nainital, India, in 1875. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army. Corbett hunted many man-eating tigers and leopards in northern India. He usually hunted alone. Only his dog, Robin, would keep him company. Read more…