If you are a bookworm and a bibliophile who believes in thumbing through the tomes and trasporting yourself to the different worlds that they invite to then look no further.

For beckoning the City’s booklovers to have a look in, feel the mint fresh leaves of their favourite fiction, go through the backcover to get the first impression of what is in store before they reserve it and be the first to savour the scintalliting saga that unfolds, then step into the British Library at 23 Prestige Takt, off Kasurba Road Cross.

For currently on at the signature storehouse of British books is the Fiction Fortnight where on showcase are over 100 odd books waiting to catch your eye and attention and lure you into the heavenly abode of skillfully crafted words that will catch you saying by the Pricking of my thumbs.

Among the amazing array of tantalising tiles that await the aficionados are the Regency England genre of romance and detective fiction of profilic writer Georgette Heyer, the Alex Cross and Detective Brianna Stone novels ofJames Patterson, Australian crime fiction of Peter Temple and his celebrated Jack Irish series.

Besides ofcourse you have Kate Thompson’s The Fourth Horseman, Michael Dobb’s First Lady, Maguire Toni’s Don’t Tell Mummy, Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games. Well, its a long list of tiles from adult fiction to children’s favourites, to P G Woodehouse to romances to detective fictions et al.

If feasting and frolicking on fiction is your favourite pasttime as you sip your cuppa of piping hot capuccino to iced mint lemon tea, or the bubbly, at your favourite roost, then head British Library way. The fiction fortnight is on till December 8, Saturday, after which the books go to the racks and the first reserved, first served becomes order of the day.  

Happy reading!