Picador

Book Reviews

• An End to Suffering (Pankaj Mishra)
  The Buddha in the World
• Hadrian the Seventh (Frederick Rolfe)
  - an outcast writer becomes pope
• Novel Without a Name (Duong Thu Huong)
  - a North Vietnamese soldier's story
• The Road to Oxiana (Robert Byron)
  - travels in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s
• The Terracotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri)
  - a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion