Books: Rivers of London, Educated, Illiberal India

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Harry Potter meets cop thriller in a modern-day London setting - it's hard to believe a murder mystery could be so funny, but author Ben Aaronovitch is the master of dry humour and I couldn't help laughing out loud reading this delightfully weird novel.



Educated by Tara Westover
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Tara Westover's "Educated" is a difficult book to read - a coming-of-age memoir that tells the story of an American woman whose fundamentalist Mormon family didn't send her to school, how she escaped that life and found herself anew through books. Distressing yet unputdownable.



Illiberal India: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason by Chidanand Rajghatta
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"Illiberal India", written by Gauri Lankesh's ex-husband, provides an insight into the firebrand journalist-activist and her fight against bigotry and fanaticism that eventually led to her assassination. This is also a powerful narrative about recent Indian history and extremism becoming mainstream in 21st century India.

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