{ spectator } The book's the thing

Here are a few titles to take you through to summer

- SEEMA GOSWAMI

There is something so thrilling about a bookshop, isn't it? There are all those authors waiting to be discovered, all those titles ready to be devoured, and a hundred different worlds that you can lose yourself in. For me, the high point of any trip to a great city is a leisurely trawl through all the book stores it has to offer. And last fortnight, that city was Singapore and the bookstore, Kinokuniya, one of my all-time favourites.

The first thing I discovered on the shelves was the latest Elizabeth George, titled Something To Hide, which came out last month, but whose release I seemed to have missed. I snatched it up and eagerly read the synopsis of the plot, happy to discover that this was another Inspector Lynley mystery. This was the perfect read for the flight back to Delhi, I thought.

There was only one problem. This was an absolute doorstopper of a book and lugging it on to a flight seemed a bit of a challenge. So, with utmost reluctance, I put the physical book back and later downloaded it on my Kindle-with due apologies to all good bookstores anywhere.

But, I consoled myself later, it was the book that was important, not the form in which I read it. And if it's reading that matters to you as well, here are some suggestions from among the books I have enjoyed over the past few months. Read them in any format that works for you satisfaction guaranteed.

Something To Hide by Elizabeth George