The Psychic Lives of Statues : Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire - Rahul Rao Fiction two strangers meet by chance

two strangers meet by chance and share their stories

It will be a constant companion in the kitchen and the book you refer to every time you want to bake

As the body count rises - seemingly the clique is being picked off one by one - Hope fails to cope with the terrible shadow cast by the disappearance of her son Noah eight years ago

interwoven with the wisdom of other climate leaders and the beauty of poetry

The Psychic Lives of Statues : Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire - Rahul Rao Fiction two strangers meet by chanceAn unimpeachable, erudite jewel of a book, showing how tenaciously the shadows of colonialism reach into our lives' Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Lives of Others'Compulsively readable. The struggle over statues is about how we live with and relate to one another, and the fight over equality and dignity' Laleh Khalili, author of Extractive Capitalism'Powerfully grounded and eminently thoughtful. Rao's account of how we grapple