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Hindu Refugee Camp, Lahore by Sachin Garg

Set more than a decade after the India-Pakistan Partition, Hindu Refugee Camp, Lahore chronicles the stories of people whose lives have been permanently altered by the devastation that swarmed over the lands.

One of my favourite aspects of this book is that the events in the lives of the two main characters, Ghulam Ali and Zahira, are narrated through a series of letters that they write to each other – with the former being trapped in the refugee camp in Lahore and the latter living in Luckno...

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Poppy and Alex are two best friends who take a vacation together in the summer of every year. Except, now it’s been two years since they last spoke properly, since that trip when things changed between them forever.

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Determined to reconnect and get back to their easy friendship, Poppy tricks Alex into accompanying her for what she tells him is a workcation.

I love reading stories that are set during holidays or trips abroad. It promises such interesting anecd...

Kill Joy by Holly Jackson

In this prequel to the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series, Pip and her friends are invited to a 1920s-themed murder mystery party, where each of them plays a role according to the game and must follow the clues to solve the mystery before the end of the night.

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Granted that I read this short novella after having read the first 2 books in the series, it was still a great deal of fun. And there are several reasons for this.

The book is centred around one event,...

Final Girls by Riley Sager

Lisa, Sam, and Quincy are three women who have each survived a horrific massacre. No matter how much they try to move on from their traumatic past, the world will never let them forget that they are final girls (the last woman standing in a horror movie).

Years later, Lisa is found dead in her apartment. Sam, who had gone off the grid, is driven to seek out Quincy. But Quincy soon learns that there may be an ulterior motive to Sam’s actions. She seems to be hiding far more than she is letting...

Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim

The year is 1918 when a little girl named Jade gets sold into a courtesan school and told never to come back home by her mother. Not too far away, a young boy named Nam Jungho, the son of a hunter, arrives in Seoul in search of a better life.

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Juhea Kim’s expansive historical fiction portrays how the lives of individuals are irrevocably intertwined. Set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation of Korea and the subsequent resistance movement that sprung in...

The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas

There’s no chance that Catalina Martin will admit to her family that she is still single. Having suffered from a painful breakup, all she sees in their faces is pity for her.

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It’s time for her sister’s wedding, and Catalina may have accidentally let on that she is seeing someone (even though she isn’t!). So when her colleague (and nemesis) Aaron Blackford offers to accompany her back home to Spain, she can’t help but wonder what his ulterior motives may be.

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Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

Anwuli Okwudili has always been made to feel like she doesn’t belong. In the eyes of society, there’s too much about her that’s machine-powered, and consequently, not organic. So when she retaliates against a group of men who assaulted her, she accidentally ends up killing them, giving the government the perfect reason to hunt her down.

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Nnedi Okorafor’s imagination knows no limit. Her worldbuilding possesses an intricacy that becomes apparent from the first chapt...

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Phillip Ashley has only ever known a semblance of filial attachment from being taken under his older cousin’s wing. So when Ambrose gets married to a stranger he met in Florence, Phillip can’t help but detest Rachel for coming between them.

Soon, he begins receiving letters from Ambrose that indicate their marriage is in trouble. And before Phillip has the chance to meet him, he dies. Determined to unearth the truth from Rachel, he invites her to their estate.

The novel opens on a dark not...

The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu

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Jas Tran comes from a Chinese-Cambodian family; one that is heavily invested in seeing her settled with a secure job and a partner (who, of course, has to come from a good Asian family). Jas, for one, is ready to stop working at her parents’ doughnut shop and follow her own path.

When she is reminded of a college crush after years, and her best friend’s meddling brings him right to their doughnut shop, Jas finds the opportunity to once and for all live life on h...

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

When Amelia wins a weekend getaway to Scotland at her office raffle, she believes this time away will help her and Adam, her husband, patch up their disintegrating marriage. But one look at the abandoned chapel has both of them convinced otherwise; this mini-vacation will probably not end well.

Alice Feeney’s 2021 thriller is a riveting tale of the power of first impressions and secrets kept in a marriage.

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Mind-boggling is the only word that can properly def...