A tribute to the life and works of the master humorist, PG Wodehouse.
Author: Vineeth Abraham
Vineeth Abraham
Vineeth Abraham calls himself a “complete, utter and unapologetic bibliophile”. He owns a large personal library and resides in Irinjalakuda, Kerala. In Shelf Life, Abraham writes about reading, books, and beyond.
How a pre-teener found a treasure in the private book collection of India’s first Foreign Secretary, KPS Menon
A passionate reader’s many encounters with the inimitable Edgar Rice Burroughs and the raw and ready Tarzan.
With the blockbuster movies from the Marvel and DC stables, they are now a serious business.
The author comes from a family of hard-core rationalists, but his overly active imagination prevented him from sleeping well after reading horror novels
The author was quite an ‘MCP’ as a seven-year-old, looking down upon comic books featuring girls as main characters, until Little Lulu came along.
What links Robin Hood to AJ Raffles, Simon Templar and Norman Conquest
There are a host of relatively unsung writers who are as witty as Jerome K Jerome or Mark Twain, and are worthy of reading and even re-reading, says the author, giving a glimpse of some of his favourites — Richard Armour, Tom Sharpe and Henry Cecil among them
Agatha Christie might hold the record as the world’s best-selling fiction writer, but the author was disappointed by the first novel of hers he chanced upon at the age of 14. But he didn’t give up, and considers Christie unparalleled in cleverly deceiving the reader.
The author first took up an Enid Blyton book grudgingly, but was so caught up that he went on to read almost all her various series and was soon hooked firmly on to reading. Despite having outgrown Blyton, he still occasionally rereads an adventure story, just for the ‘unalloyed enjoyment’ of it.