From the author ofand Before the Coffee Gets Coldand comesand Tales from the Cafe, a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer.Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Toshikazu...

From the bestselling author of Zero Percentile, Life is only fun while it is simple - and attempting to develop the biggest software company in the world can never be simple. This is the story of two friends, Priya, and Nitin, who has HIV...

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed.'Unputdownable' Ali SmithEdinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme...

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems...

Gamrah's faith in her new husband is not exactly returned … Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiance … Michelle is half-American and the wrong class for her boyfriend's family … While Lamees works hard with little time for love. The...

German hossain's dreams never seem to leave him in peace as india's independence approaches, bringing with it a wrenching partition and the bloodbath of communal riots, german, a resident of birbhum district in bengal, sets out for murshidabad in the hope of curing himself...

Give me your money, or I will kill you!' Please…' I gasped. I've come from England to study!' Well, let this be your first lesson, English boy…'Eager to start a new phase in life, Rahul Saxena, 27, a half-Indian British citizen, recently out of...

Goal: To eliminate Aamir Sherzai, the new whiz-kid in the Pakistan-wing of the Taliban. Means: A CIA operative Ed Gomez, on a mission to get even with Aamir Sherzai, responsible for the execution of his best buddy and fellow agent, Jason. Location: The Beast',...

God is a Gamer is a world where money means nothing, martyrs are villains, predators are prey, assassination is taught by the ancient Greeks, and nothing is as it seems.

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka, helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out across...

Guru, an end-stage cancer patient, comes to a quiet medical campus and quickly befriends his hosts friends and neighbours, his warmth and sympathetic manner encouraging them to confide in him. Out of these conversations emerges a name Prabhakar Tambe which spreads a pall of...

He saw his uncle once or twice a week. They got on each others nerves, but had grown fond of the frisson. He was Anandas sole friend in London and Ananda his. Friend was right, because his uncle was capable of being neither uncle,...

He was a bestseller She wanted him to make her one. Paperback king, Aditya Kapoor life is straight out of a modern man's fantasy. His literary stardom is perfectly balanced by a loving wife and a spectacular career. With everything he touches turning to...

Highly imaginative stories, full of humour, love, laughter, tragedy and loss No, I am no Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights, I tell Rani, when she agrees to listen to my stories. And I am no depraved king, she says ... Pitthos World is the...

Holly O'Neill knows that every charm bracelet tells a story. Many years ago she was sent one with just a single charm attached. The charms have been appearing ever since, often at challenging times, as if her mysterious benefactor knows exactly when she needs...

Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I'll be reading for years and years and years' Natasha Lunn, author ofand Conversations on LoveA breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them.A daughter asks her...

Human Resource Management System (HRMS) or interfacing between Human Resources Management (HRM) and Information Technology (IT) is yet to become a core area of interest for HR managers in India. However, curiosity of HRM practitioners in this area is increasing as database systems and...

I didn't say anything.and I didn't return his smiles.and I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting.and I grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes.and I hate those who think fat people are stupid. 'An obese woman and...

I hate the rain…I hate it, hate it, hate it. But the rain can't stop me. No one can…I'll go out and play tonight. I will kill only four. No more, no less. Just four.' In the midst of one of the worst monsoons...

'I was taught to take everything I could by any means possible without feeling any sense of remorse, and that coloured the way I saw the world, a world where the strong stomp on everyone below them and doing good is for the naive.'...

If I vanishedand he wouldn't notice, if I died heand wouldn't care. I think of him alland the time, and he thinks of me not at all. I love him, and my loveand torments me. There are timesand when I feel like a ghost...

Immaculately constructed, acidly observed and gripping from start to finish,and A Burningand is a brilliant debut.'and Theand Guardian Megha Majumdar'sand A Burningand is an uncanny debut, a fierce condemnation of modern India - the corruption, racism, misogyny, the feverish obsession with celebrity - this...

In 1739, Qaraar Ali, a young craftsman from Delhi witnesses the destruction of his world as he has known it. His wondrous city where he found love, spirituality, the friendship of poets and philosophers becomes a desolate, scorching hell. From the embers of his...

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 1980s Bombay, a highly regarded voice teacher and his affluent sixteen-year-old student enter into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in their lives, and the lives of their families. With exquisitely sensuous detail, quiet humor, and unsentimental poignancy, Amit Chaudhuri...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2017 WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD, AND THE...

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 world where more women are joining the work force, where ever more are stepping out from their secluded and cloistered world and can be physically seen in larger numbers, this collection seeks to explore how male writers in Urdu view and consequently...

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 essay called "Crossroads," Aminatta Forna muses on the legacy of slavery as she settles her family in Washington, DC, where she is constantly accused of cutting in line whenever she stands next to her white husband. Families are hardly stable entities, so...

In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent, from refugee camps and...

In British-occupied Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 revolution, respected landowner Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen on hard times. Bankrupt, he moves his family to Cairo and takes a menial job at the Automobile Club, a luxurious lodge for its European members, where...

Inand Four Dervishes, Hammad Hassan Rind takes theand dastan,and an ornate form of oral history, and creates a social satire with elements of magic realism. Drawing on a long tradition of oral storytelling, Rind finds meaning for the anonymous central character whose partner has...

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 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 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 modern, beautiful Green City, gender selection, war and a virus outbreak have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technological surveillance to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children...

Inand The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes takes a fresh perspective on an ancient story, reimagining in gripping prose how the Oedipus and Antigone stories would look if the oft-overlooked female characters took centre stage. Retelling the myth to reveal a new side of...

In the cultural hub of 1880s' Lahore Kay Robinson has taken over as editor of the Civil and Military Gazette. Assisting him is the young and impressionable Rudyard Kipling, a lonely, impulsive man who dreams of becoming a writer. Kipling's literary pursuits have been...

In The Immortals of Meluha, Shiva is introduced as a tribal warrior from Tibet who is destined to be the savior of the Meluhans from their enemies. The Meluhans had heard a prophecy stating that a warrior from an alien land would come to...

In the two decades since the early 1990s, when india confirmed its allegiance to the free market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever before and society has become more sharply riven than ever. In looking away, harsh mander ranges wide to...

In the wake of her mother's death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance...

In the winter of her life, Dharmshila, the keeper of memories of her family of brave Gorkha warriors, tells her grandchildren the story of their ancestors who came from Nepal as conquerors and fought the British in the Khalanga War in Dehradun. As the...

In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich hinterland and the ever-expanding, squalid towns of Jharkhand, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar breathes life into a set of characters who are as robustly flesh and blood as the soil from which they spring, where they...

In this stunning novel, Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover.A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars.Burying these in the vicinity, the...

India's first all-women action thriller series that all but replaces oestrogen with adrenalin Missing social activist Lalima has picked three women to carry out the task she was unable to finish Sheila, the owner of an all-women's gym in Kolkata; Nachiketa, an attorney in...

Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... But sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be.

Intizar Husain is the finest writer of Urdu prose and the most brilliant story-teller of the post-partition generation. The two novellas, Day and Dastan (Din Aur Dastan), his favourite texts, show his versatility and fictional inventiveness. Day, a realistic story, is a meditation on...

Iqbal, a simple Muslim boy from Aligarh, is lured across the border into Pakistan to join the ranks of the notorious Lashkar-e-Toiba, one of the most dreaded Islamist militant organizations in the world. Six months later, a series of bomb blasts rip through a...

Irresistible short stories from some of the top names in fiction writing today. A chance meeting with a handsome Italian stranger...The Christmas list - with a difference A yummy mummy picks up the wrong bag, with surprising consequences The woman who wanted a life...