Aasha Rani, the unrivalled number one of Bombay cinema, seems intent on ruining her career - and her life - blinded by a scorching passion that threatens to destroy everything she has attained. Aasha Rani's story is that of a vulnerable, small-town girl whose...

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years...

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to...

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After...

After a long journey from England, Ray Bhullar arrives early on a winter morning at the gates of the Indian village which will be her home for the next three months. The door of the hut she will share with Serena, her English co-worker,...

After creating a messy situation, Angela thought that she and her Pakistani boyfriend, Iftikar, were leaving danger behind them when they fled England for his homeland. But it seems that trouble awaits them when Iftikar's estranged father convinces him to run in the upcoming...

After Okami is captured in the Jukai forest, Mariko has no choice--to rescue him, she must return to Inako and face the dangers that have been waiting for her in the Heian Castle. She tricks her brother, Kenshin, and betrothed, Raiden, into thinking she...

Ahmed- a privileged young man born into a world of exquisite dinner parties at the large estates on the outskirts of Lahore, bound to a political legacy that he wants nothing to do with. In a city where status is everything and social stability...

Akshay Saxena, an out of work editor of a defunct literary magazine in the UK, is told to move to India for a year to help shore up the value of Kalim, an ailing Indian publisher. Akshay finds himself in a job where he...

All Babar Bunny' Ali ever wanted was a chance to bond with his father, with whom he shares a love for books .When the prospect of an adventure comes up he jumps at the opportunity. However, everything changes one night when a random bullet,...

All Mrinalini Singh wants she has. A loving husband, a competent cook, the vague hope of a book deal one day. But when her old roommate Jahanara accuses her of being selfish, Mrinalini is forced to practise altruism on the nearest available target: her...

All right, I will share my deepest, darkest secret. I loved my father…like, sons love their fathers, I loved mine too. And aren't sons forever following in their father's footsteps? Even if those footsteps are blighted…?' Weed, a follow-up of the award winning No...

All's well for Gopal Chandran and his wife Vidura on the sleepy campus of a semi-secret defense lab where Gopal is a valuable scientist, till an old friend, Anuprabha, visits them and starts asking awkward questions. What are the nano-powders produced in the labs...

Almost Midnight: Two Festive Short Storiesand byand New York Timesand bestselling author Rainbow Rowell contains two wintery short stories,and decorated throughout with gorgeous black and white illustrations by Simini Blocker.and 'Midnights' is the story of Noel and Mags, who meet at the same New...

Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn t have the right connections but then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone...

An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).'Dark and brilliant.'and SARAH MOSS'A masterpience.'and DAISY JOHNSON'Extraordinary.'and SARAH PERRY'Hall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellecutally brave and emotionally honest.'THE SCOTSMANIn the bedroom above her immense...

An essential companion to the inspirational classicand The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery.From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily...

An unhappy divorce and a succession of sordid affairs have left Karuna bruised and battered and, in an effort to forget, Karuna begins writing her memoirs. As the story of her life unfolds we see how the gauche middle-class girl metamorphoses into a star-...

An unscrupulous stockbroker is audaciously murdered in a crowded bar room.A hotshot CEO is accused of insider trading.When Shashi Kurva, self-made man and one of the country's most successful CEOs, is named in an insider trading scandal, he is stunned and utterly blindsided. In...

An Unsuitable Match, by number one bestselling author Joanna Trollope, is an uplifting story of love, family and second chances. Why on earth, after all you've been through, all you've survived, all you've achieved, why do you want to get married?'Rose Woodrowe has just...

And what of those whose roots are planted deep in the soil of their land? what does it take for them to thrive, transplanted?'east pakistan, 1950. Nayantara flees riot-ridden narayanbari with her two daughters, leaving behind her life as she knew it. The only...

The latest thrilling entry in the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke.and Two identical brothers, both handsome, intelligent and popular recent college graduates, seemingly perfect in every way. That is, until the shocking summer night when...

'Are You Enjoying?' is emotional, equally hilarious, and gutting. I couldn't put this book down because I'd been welcomed into the most intimate parts of these characters' lives' Rupi Kaur'Fresh, intelligent, and bold: Mira Sethi's stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in...

Arif is the son of a sub-inspector in Patna. His once prosperous landowning family has slipped low down the class ladder. Arif 's sole ambition in life is to crack the civil service examination and become an IAS officer. He believes this will restore...

Arion and the Dolphin, an opera in nine scenes, is an enchanting libretto by Vikram Seth, set to music composed by Alec Roth. It tells the tale of Arion, a young musician at the court of Periander in Corinth. Thrown overboard on his return...

Around the world, people are increasingly facing a future that is crowded and hot, thirsty or drowning, subject to violent weather extremes and a changing climate, where the rich and poor inhabit separate spheres and governments are unable or unwilling to confront the most...

Arranged marriages are complicated things. So are mothers. And so are relationships. Kasturi Shukla is a fresh MBA graduate with a great job in hand. She is also geeky and single at twenty-four. The biggest sore spot in Kasturi's life is her dominating, arranged...

Arsalan, a passionate lover known only for his fantastical stories, is selected to become the PM. His team includes an ambulance driver, a pimp, a ravishing model, a club singer, a scientist and a matchmaker. In the shadows, a plan is being hatched to...

As he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef al-Firsiwi finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a single devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine, whom he believed to be studying engineering in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan...

As time passes, his songs become part of folklore but the actual man remains shrouded in mystery, perhaps out of a habitual self-effacement that was part of Lalan Fakir s philosophy of life. Lalan does not subscribe to any conventional religious thoughts and abjures...

As youngsters in Bulbul Kothi, Allahabad, Rekha and Amina shared much: dolls, gossip, bits of adult-only knowledge. Perhaps nothing would have changed if Rekha's affair with Danish-bhai had not ended in bitterness and heartbreak. Now, after what seems like an eternity, they are back...

Aseem, naïve and earnest, has just returned to Delhi to look for a job after completing his business studies. Disillusioned with his father Avinash's uninspiring life, and desperately trying to carve a path for himself independent of his overbearingly interfering aunt, Menaka, and her...

'At a time when nobody else was talking, (El Saadawi) spoke the unspeakable.' Margaret AtwoodDistinguished literary critic Bodour is trapped in a loveless marriage and carries with her a dark secret. She fell in love in her youth and gave birth to an illegitimate...

At forty-three Mantra decides to quit her job to experience the pleasure of retirement while she's still able to walk without a nursing attendant in tow. But to her horror, she has to smooth the wrinkles in her marriage before she can get to...

At nineteen years old, Sita is the shining star of Queen Lakshmi of India's imperial guard, having pledged herself to a life of celibacy in the name of protecting the young ruler. When Sita agrees to train Lakshmi in the art of military combat,...

At the age of eleven, Triton goes to work as a houseboy to Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed with the island's disappearing reef. It was the biggest house he had ever seen. People from all over the world came here to sell their...

Atul Shukla, a young, successful executive, has been arrested by the Gurgaon police. As he attempts to find some comfort in the dark confines of his cell, Atul revisits his life and the six evenings that changed its course. Eight years ago, while working...

Avinash Pawar, a young, intrepid reporter, works at the Mumbai Sun, alongside his mentor, Hamza Syed, a seasoned journalist who specializes in unearthing secrets about the city's underworld. At Hamza's request, Avinash agrees to ghostwrite the memoir of fading Bollywood actress Parineeti Deb Ahuja-but...

Azad Essa is a young South African going places. A journalist with a wicked sense of humour, his take on world politics is engaging and insightful. The Moslems Are Coming tracks a changing world, tackles race and religion head-on, gives fresh insight into the...

Bala Kamath is a burnt-out alcoholic investigative journalist on the verge of losing his job with the media house for which he works. As a last chance to save his career, he is sent on an assignment to a small town near Mangalore, to...

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us from America to...

Best friends Azim Khan and Karan Nahru never considered politics a career choice, but then fate decreed otherwise. Forced by circumstances to rethink their professions, the two friends find themselves willy-nilly contesting the elections. Slowly but surely, Azim makes western Uttar Pradesh his electoral...

Between 2006 and 2009, Vikram Seth wrote four librettos for the composer Alec Roth and the violinist Philippe Honore. The first three were about places-China during the Tang Dynasty, the Salisbury house of the poet George Herbert (where Seth lives) and India; the fourth,...

Beyond that, it is a fable of our troubled times, packing murder-mystery, puzzle, and myth into a hundred pages laced with humour. Syed Muhammad Ashraf's contemporary classic is brilliantly translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi, author of The Adventures of Amir Hamza, Tilsm-i-Hoshruba and The...

Binod and Rabinder are cousins brought up as brothers, Binod sincere and high-minded, Ranbinder in and out of trouble. Binod becomes a journalist who aspires to be a writer. Rabinder, the one always full of plans, grows up and gets arrested for running a...

Black Tongue: Anjana Basu Was Born In Allahabad And Studied In London. She Works As An Advertising Consultant In Kolkata. When Not Churning Out Copy She Writes Short Stories And Poems And Treavel Pieces For Journals Like Travel Plus.

A nymphomaniac nawab and his fiercely clever footman. The awakening of a servant-child's passion. A divorce fuelled by envy, illicit love and suppression. A noble set to transform the history of royal marriages.

Blood had begun to trickle down Asha's starched cotton salwar, and once more she tried to will herself to stay calm. It was nothing. These things happened.But these things haven't happened before. It's August 1947, the night before India's independence. It is also the...

Bok is a guitar player in a Shillong band, who has a lot on his mind. Kitdor, his elder brother, has lost 50 lakh rupees on a trip to Nagaland, while buying arms for a group of militants. Kitdor is given only a week's...

Book Summary of The Story of My Assassins I could sense that in that swirling mad room, every eye had slowly come to rest on him. I saw even your hounor in all his pasty majesty sneak a look or two. Sethiji said, 'They...