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Bookstrapping: ‘Portrait of an Unknown Woman’ by Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva has authored twenty-five novels, including very popular ones like The Other Woman, The New Girl, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy and The Order.

All entertainment requires a leap of faith and an emotional connection to the creator’s art. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.

Bookstrapping: The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth

The Queen occasionally muddled people up. When coming upon historian Andrew Roberts giving Kate Middleton a lesson on the history of the monarchy shortly before her wedding to Prince William, the Queen was convinced he was one of the Palace butlers! (Image: Richard Surman via Unsplash)

The Queen’s humour might be unintentional – when meeting guitar legend Eric Clapton in 2005, she enquired ‘Have you been playing a long time?’. Bookstrapping Rating: 3 stars

Bookstrapping: The Disciplined Mind by Zoe McKey

The book is also a reminder that having a disciplined mind eventually pays off. Everyone is a 'work in progress' and mistakes will be made, but those will turn into learnings with time. (Representational image: Daniele Franchi via Unsplash)

“The world is not responsible for you, you are responsible for yourself in the world,” an excellent reminder when we are tempted to complain. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Bookstrapping: Influence Empire – The story of Tencent and China’s tech ambition

A master of creating products so convenient and intuitive that billions of users want to join his network, Pony Ma is a private entrepreneur in a state dominant economy with a gift for survival.

Lulu Chen’s book is a window into the brainchild of Pony Ma, Tencent’s ‘influence empire’. Bookstrapping Rating: 4 stars

Bookstrapping: India’s Most Fearless – true stories of extraordinary courage

These ‘as-yet-untold stories’ are edge of the seat phenomenon. (Representational image: Mitul Gajera via Unsplash)

‘India’s most fearless’ – now a trilogy of books honouring our men in uniform. The third book features ten true stories, providing glimpses of the incredible heroism of Indian soldiers. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.

Bookstrapping: Hul Hul – The suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855.

What’s absolutely astonishing about the rebellion of 1855, is that the Santals fought for a region that they were passing through. (Image: Cover of Peter Stanley's book. Amazon India)

The plot, stratagems and alliances of the rebellion itself, form the bulk of the book by Peter Stanley. Meet new heroes you probably haven’t heard of. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Bookstrapping: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

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As our reviewer closed this book, this is what she understood of its message – ‘We need to stop humanity from destroying itself by upgrading our collective intelligence and reason. We will die out in the next century if nothing changes.’ Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Bookstrapping: The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

Geoff Dyer’s canvas, of course, is beyond just Roger Federer; he touches upon jazz, Bob Dylan, movies, drugs, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig van Beethoven (above). (Illustration: Perrant via Wikimedia Commons 3.0)

Geoff Dyer’s category-defying piece of writing cannot sit in biography or self-help and yet has elements of both. Dyer focuses on the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who wrote their own rules when their beautiful youths were over, writes @OfficialReetaRG Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Bookstrapping: ‘Wild Wisdom’ by Christine Amour-Levar

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‘Wild Wisdom: Life Lessons from Leading Teams to Some of the Most Inhospitable Places in the World’ leaves you disturbed about sustainability and warm about the possibilities if we all came together. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Bookstrapping: The Man Who Bent Light by Narinder Singh Kapany

Narinder Singh Kapany (1927-2020) wrote about successfully transmitting high-quality images through a bundle of optical fibres in a 1960 edition of 'Scientific American'. (Representational image: Compare Fibre via Unsplash)

The fusion of ‘science as a universal need’ and ‘religion as a universal truth but private practice’ emerges beautifully from this book. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars