The Cooking of Books : A Literary Memoir by Ramachandra Guha (Paperback)It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir. It started in Delhi in the early 1980s, when Guha

and then along the winding trail right up to the latest innovations in winemaking today

scaling Colorado’s Pikes Peak at speed on a track lacking safety barriers…

The Women’s Timber Corps are about to have a tumultuous year…

Oz travels from 6000 BC through the fact and fiction of Persia

An unpopular king

Soph Galustian's

and the Red Army has never been fully documented

discovers evidence that may overthrow the system that keeps her people downtrodden – in an ancient tome hidden far away

Our twenties can be challenging

Instead of a birthday bash

slow-simmered stews

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