1. Book: The Paying Guests; Author: Sarah Waters; Publisher: Hachette; Pages: 566; Price: Rs. 599 <\/p>\n
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work are demanding change. And in a genteel house in the south of the city, its inhabitants still recovering from the devastating losses of the First World War, life is about to be transformed. <\/p>\n
Widowed Mrs. Wray and her daughter, Frances - an unmarried woman with an interesting past, now on her way to becoming a spinster - find themselves obliged to take in lodgers. <\/p>\n
The arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a young couple of the \"clerk class\", brings with it gramophone music, colour and fun. <\/p>\n
Open doors offer Frances glimpses of the newcomers' habits, and the staircase and landing have never seemed to her so busy. <\/p>\n
As she and Lilian are drawn into an unexpected friendship, loyalties begin to shift. Secrets are confessed, dangerous desires admitted; the most ordinary of lives, it seems, can explode into passion and drama. <\/p>\n
A love story, this is also a crime story. <\/p>\n
2. Book: The Final Report; Author: Monabi Mitra; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 246; Price: Rs. 199 <\/p>\n
When a young girl falls to her death from the Mission Row Police Housing Complex, home to DSP Bikram Chatterjee, the Crime Branch goes into a tizzy. <\/p>\n
Who is she? Is it murder or suicide? And, most importantly, how did she manage to climb up to the roof without being noticed? <\/p>\n
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