Exploring the arts of love

THE BOOK OF LOVE: IN SEARCH OF THE KAMASUTRA, By James McConnachie, Atlantic Books €26.60.

As a subject, the customs of ancient India may be of limited appeal, but when the focus is the most infamous book in history, we have a very different kettle of karma.

The Book of Love, in Search of the Kamasutra, is the story of how this misunderstood work came about, and how after centuries in obscurity it ...