` :::::::::Of late, I've given Indian authors an undue share of my reading list. I've pretty much completed Rushdie and Narayan, and have been avoiding Nirad C. Chaudhuri, but been low on Mulk Raj Anand and Anita Desai so read a few of theirs. Finally managed to complete Alexander McCall Smith and most of Bill Bryson. Just starting on The Woman Who Walked into Doors now, given my reading history this year, I expect this to be a bit ``heavy``. But I agree with you on historical fiction, did you read Recalcitrance? ;) I loved The Motorcycle Diaries, although it isn't exactly historical fiction. -'''''' `