The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order.

About the book – The Independent

 

 

A Year in Provence is a 1989 autobiographical novel by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs. Peter Mayle and his wife move to Provence, and are soon met with unexpectedly fierce weather, underground truffle dealers and unruly workers, who work around their normalement schedule.

About the book – The Guradian

 

 

 

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is a fun, breezy book that is crying out to be made into a road movie. It’s also the perfect holiday read, except for the fact that you’ll disturb your fellow plane passengers by laughing too much.

Allan Karlsson crawled, as the Scandinavian titles more precisely have it, out the window and ran away from his old people’s home just before his 100th birthday party was to start. Creaked away, rather, slightly weighed down by elderly joints and properly weighed down by a suitcase that he grumpily stole because his bus started to leave before the rude biker who asked him to watch it came back from the loo.

About the book – The Guradian

 

 

Currently reading:

Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: As unlikely and funny as Jonas Jonasson’s 2012 debut bestseller, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, his second novel follows a self-taught Soweto shanty-town girl called Nombeko who has the opportunity not just to save the king of Sweden, but also the world when she finds herself confined in a potato truck with the king and the Swedish prime minister in 2007. Unlikely? The probability, calculated by Nombeko, is 1 in 45,766,212,810.

About the book – The Guradian

 

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