Imran Ki Wapsi

In 1603, Paru a young concubine is on the run. A precious jewel, her only possession has been stolen. And now the mysterious assailants are after her life. Friendless and penniless, Paru decides to fight back. Her razor sharp wit and her sensuous charms...

In 1839, fifty-three African slaves staged a bloody mutiny on board the Amistad, a Spanish slave ship from Cuba. Their success was short-lived as the slaver was intercepted by the American Navy and towed to Connecticut where the slaves were held for deportation. But...

In 1938 one figure received more press coverage than Mussolini, Hitler or Roosevelt. He was a cultural icon and a world-class athlete - and an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse by the name of Seabiscuit.

In 1973, a film shattered box office records all over India. It introduced two young stars who became instant heart-throbs, and ushered in a new genre of Hindi films, the teeny-bopper romance. It also bailed out the legendary RK Films after the disaster that...

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died. Helen O'Mara is one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns....

In 1998 Peter F. Hamilton, the master of space opera and top ten bestselling author, published his first collection of short stories in A Second Chance at Eden. Manhattan in Reverse is his return to short fiction. This includes 'Manhattan in Reverse,' an original...

In 2011, the screenwriter, lyricist and journalist Neelesh Misra started mentoring a handpicked group of writers called the Mandali. These were men and women of all ages, backgrounds and dispositions. The Mandali soon started writing radio stories in Hindi, for Misra's showand Yaadon Ka...

In a corrupt world where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, one man has power over them all. "The Last Don" is Mario Puzo at his finest - a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzios,...

In a distant galaxy, three planets co-exist in a fragile alliance.Three kids from different planets must put aside their differences to save their world ...Dray is fighting to prove herself as Commander-in-Chief of the Bellori army.Keller, Cantor's newly crowned king, is struggling to change...

In a dusty caravanserai in seventeenth-century Mumtazabad, Cyrah, a young wanderer, meets a man who says he is a monster. Their encounter fills her with revulsion and dread, yet changes her forever. In present-day Kolkata, college professor Alok Mukherjee meets a man who claims...

In a dysfunctional marriage, it may seem convenient when the wife commits suicide, but things aren't always what they seem...Battling both a fractured marriage and the monsters in her cranium, Aisha leads a sequestered life on the outskirts of a town in the hills...

In a future London, Concentr8 is a prescription drug intended to help kids with ADD. Soon every troubled teen is on it. It makes sense, doesn't it? Keep the undesirable elements in line. Keep people like us safe from people like them. What's good...

In a ploy to sell more Krabby Patties than ever before, Mr. Krabs transforms the Krusty Krab into a winter wonderland spectacular enough to rival even the famous North Pole. He presides over this holiday oasis as Krabby Klaws, with SpongeBob as head elf...

In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. The romances were originally published between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be...

In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India...

In a small town, big secrets are hard to keep. Jane True has always felt like a misfit in Rockabill. With a shady family background and a tragic past, she's used to being rejected by so-called 'normal' society. But she's about to discover there's...

In a world on the brink of chaos, passion and vengeance collide . . . After six months in hell, Julian Castille has returned to the world a changed man-no longer the calm, powerful CEO, but a shifter fully embraced by the blood of...

In an age that mashes internet porn with Tinder and arranged marriage, in an age in which everything (sexuality, gender, consent) seems fluid, what does the landscape of love look like, really? And how are the seismic jolts in the ways we negotiate sex...

In an age where it has never been easier to fritter away time with a steady stream of distractions, we still feel the oppressive tick of the almighty clock. But what if instead of scolding ourselves from indulging in distraction, we rebelled against deadlines...

In an era of corporate journalism, the media industry is willing to experiment with the irrational and the perverse. Youngsters across news channels are fed on the diet of crime, sleaze and entertainment, their baptism complete only when they have touched the new high...

In an ever-changing world, some things remain the same. Virtues and human values such as honesty, gratitude, humility, obedience and patience are the founding stones of early childhood and what better way to learn them than through stories? My Islamic Values with its beautiful...

In an ever-changing world, some things remain the same. Virtues and human values such as honesty, gratitude, humility, obedience and patience are the founding stones of early childhood and what better way to learn them than through stories? My Islamic Values with its beautiful...

In an ever-changing world, some things remain the same. Virtues and human values such as honesty, gratitude, humility, obedience and patience are the founding stones of early childhood and what better way to learn them than through stories? My Islamic Values with its beautiful...

In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason's name. The woman...

In an upscale L.A. neighborhood, a backyard renovation unearths an infant s body, buried sixty years ago. Soon thereafter, in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD...

In any business, its the entrepreneur where the proverbial buck stops. Yes, its a clich, but that is what it boils down to. When things go wrong, its your responsibility, when they go well, you get to enjoy the benefits. Ashutosh Garg was a...

In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for Britain's Got Talent touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to...

In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women...

In Catherine Anderson's newest installment in the Harrigan family series, an unlikely couple is brought together under circumstances that defy all reason.... Tragedy has struck the Harrigans-Quincy's beloved sister-in-law Loni is gravely ill and nearing death. Quincy, like his brothers, feels helpless to save...

In Divine Beginnings, Healer Aine must chose between treating an enigmatic enemy or letting him die, whilst The Amazon's Curse could kill the passion that Nola and vampire warrior Zane share. Toying with New Orleans Voodoo, leaves Tessa haunted by a sinfully sexy man....

In First Proof we continue to publish the best new writing from India. The selections in this sixth volume range from essays, short stories and poems to memoirs, ethnographies and profiles. You will discover exciting first-time writers and come across familiar names writing in...

In her debut collection, Maheen Usmani sketches an array of intriguing characters with ease; elegantly constructed plots; complex situations conveyed in simple, yet eloquent language. In The Mercurial Mr Bhutto' the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is seen through a child's...

In her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich London families whose houses she cleans. But twenty years earlier, it was a different story. Najwa was at university in Khartoum and, as an upper-class westernized...

In her rigorous analysis, Fair examines the number of these schools in Pakistan, their share of the educational market, the curriculum, socioeconomic background of the students and the connections between the madrassah schools and militancy. Fair chronicles the Pakistan government's efforts to reform the...

In her search for the other family', Hina, a young journalist, takes us from her upper middle-class neighbourhood in Lahore, to a very different setting.The Parking Lot deals with the gulf between the rich and the poor in Pakistan, and between the richer segment...

In his first novel noted poet and short story writer Keki N. Daruwalla brings alive a world of tumultuous voyaging during the time of Vasco da Gama an era when the quest for exotic spices triggered a passionate desire for exploration. Legends of a...

In his long and eventful career, Pran Nevile has donned several hats - journalist, researcher, diplomat, Soviet bloc expert, United Nations adviser, and writer. The story of his multifaceted life begins in pre-Partition Lahore and gives us glimpses of imperial New Delhi and journeys...

In his trio of bestselling novels - The Sportswriter, Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - Richard Ford set out the zeitgeist of an entire generation, through the divining and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe,...

In Islam, Shirk (polytheism) is the grievous sin that can not be forgiven until man turns to Allah in repentance sincerely and ask His pardon. This book deals with shirk thoroughly and highlights its various forms prevalent among the Muslims and non-Muslims. Its aim...

In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell's armies at the...

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-Africa's "Iron Lady" - was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West African...

In March 2015, people were captivated by news reports of the dramatic rescue of an 18-month old girl, Lily Groesbeck, who'd survived fourteen hours in an overturned car, submerged in an icy-cold Utah river, after her mother apparently lost control of the vehicle. Police...

In May 1919 the new Emir of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan-convinced that the British Empire was on the brink of collapse-proclaimed a jihad against Britain in the hope the could seize the old Afghan provinces west of the River Indus and humiliate his old enemy....

In military one learns the essence of people, leadership andand professional excellence. One sees so many examples of moral courage, commitment, and self-sacrifice. During my thirty-year-long militaryand career, I have seen the various facets of war, as well as the succeedingand peace. During the...

In New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas's small town of Harmony, Texas, “there's always something brewing" (Fallen Angel Reviews). Now, a generations-old feud is about to come to a head-and the stakes couldn't be higher with two hearts on the line… Cord McDowell...

In New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jameson Rook. When he decides...

In New York, Special Agent Lacey Sherlock foils a terrorist attack at JFK airport, but stopping the grenade-carrying crazy was only the beginning. Another plot unfolds nearly simultaneously with a bomb at St. Patrick's Cathedral...Meanwhile, Savich--with the help of Agent Griffin Hammersmith--has his hands...

In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others - particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined...

In one extraordinary moment, Darcy Wallace was transformed from being down-on-her-luck into a millionaire sharing candlelight dinners with Robert MacGregor Blade. Mac was the most seductive man she ever met -- though he certainly wasn't the marrying kind. But Darcy was feeling lucky... So...