COCHIN BOOK CLUB ANNIVERSARY CELERATION

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Across
  1. 6. Nandini Das’ Courting India spotlights Thomas Roe, the English ambassador to the court of this Indian emperor.
  2. 9. An outbreak of a certain disease features in this 1985 novel by Gabriel García
  3. 10. Rhonda Byrne wrote this 2006 book, a hidden "principle of the universe".
  4. 11. Caitriona Balfe plays the out-of-place & out-of-time title character of this series based on Diana Gabaldon's books
  5. 13. Nearing 40, he had no poetry books out; took "The Road Not Taken" anyway, made all the difference
  6. 14. Mark Kurlansky wrote a whole book on the history of this, "the only rock we eat"
Down
  1. 1. In P Sainath’s exploration of poverty in rural India, “Everybody loves a good _____”
  2. 2. A former chairman of CNN, he has written biographies of Steve Jobs & Elon Musk
  3. 3. The Far Field is Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel, following a young woman’s journey to a remote corner of this region, to track down a salesman from her past
  4. 4. A Pulitzer Prize-winning "Biography of Cancer": "The Emperor of All ____"
  5. 5. In Anita Desai’s “In Custody”, protagonist Deven Sharma gets respite from his teaching gig by interviewing a famous poet of this language.
  6. 7. Tolkien created this language whose forms include Quenya before writing his books, not the other way around
  7. 8. "The Monk of Mokha" tells of a man hoping to revive this country's art of coffee making
  8. 12. He wrote "War and Peace" over 6 years, visiting battlefields & reading books on the Napoleonic Wars for research