On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street - but the tremors of civil war are mounting, and the conflict threatens to engulf them all. In a heart-rending novel poised between the past and the future,...

On the eve of the battle of Panipat, Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur gathers his forces to fight the formidable Lodhi Sultan and regain Hindustan, the land of riches that his ancestor Temur once ruled. His confidence is boosted by his pride in the martial skills...

One day, a baby girl, Tara, is found, abandoned and covered in flies. She is raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya, her adoptive mother, and Bhaggan, Saffiya's maidservant,...

One of the best young writers of India-Indian Express One of the finest contemporary Malayalam writers-Mint In a cafe by the seaside, two friends, Christy Andrapper and Jesintha, witness the murder of a young man. When Christy discovers that it was Senthil, his classmate...

Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of lslam and Muslimsis a study on Literary Orientalism that inspects and discusses the image of Muslims and lslam in English Literature through history. It identifies and examines the imperialistic as well as the positive pluralistic perspectives of lslam...

outside environment seemed to have completely overshadowed his genes. He was getting more and more anglicized with every passing year and almost felt embarrassed of being the son of his parents. He felt that they were out of tune with life in Britain…'Having survived...

Pakistan's current generation of English-language novelists, born after the 1971 war and writing in the twenty-first century, must navigate between the ancient cultural history they have inherited and the relative youth of their country as a political construct. In this book, Dr David Waterman...

'People associate us former royals with the usual things: images of grandeur-of pomp and splendour, of crowns and coronations . . . They conclude, generally, that to be royalty-even former royalty-is an enviable thing. Well.' Peeling back the layers of myth and innuendo surrounding...

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk's first novel in four years, he does...

Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Jenny Han, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take onand Sense and Sensibilityand follows two sisters-complete opposites-who discover the secrets they've been keeping make them more alike than they'd realized.and and For siblings as different as Plum and...

Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three...

Pigeons of the dome: Stories on Communalismis a collection of short stories depicting the various hues and shades of the demon of communalism that lurks within Indian society. A word that crops up repeatedly in the stories included here is fasaad in Urdu and...

We are offering a high discount due to slightly damage.Bored witless in her south Delhi cocoon, the beautiful Ania Khurana seeks excitement. Whether tinkering with her novel-in-progress or setting up her single aunt and close friends with suitable men, she undertakes her projects with...

Pragmatic entrepreneur Anil Mehrotra has set up his thriving business empire with the help of his lieutenant, Ahmed, an older man who is different in more ways than one. Quiet and undemanding, Ahmed talks in aphorisms, bothers no one and always gets the job...

Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behaviour and morality even the rules governing time and gravity are turned upside down. Set in the teeming city of contemporary Bombay, this comic and vibrant tale begins with a young man in search...

Prominent industrialist Sir Fayyaz Ahmad disappears en route to his vacation home, and returns several days later in a strange delusional state. His granddaughter, the young and beautiful Shalika, approaches Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed for help. The investigation leads the two detectives through...

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a...

Punjab in the early eighties. The atmosphere is charged with calls for Khalistan and there is violence on the streets. With stories of carnage creeping in, the ordinary lives of siblings Monty and Minnie, and their cousins Karuna and Michael, teeter on the brink...

Q, Y, X, T, T and B are not merely high-scoring Scrabble tiles; they represent the people in Sabas life who feature on her blog, My Brothers Wedding. Sabas brother, Y, is to get married and, since the day her mother and sister began...

Qayenaat is a drifting, solitary, sensitive figure at the edge of the Bangalore art scene. When world-famous artist Baban Reddy, once a young man who hung on her every word, returns to the city to show his latest artwork, all her old longings rise...

Quixotic retirees in Coorg and young newly-weds trying to eat meat; teenage boys travelling to Benares in the nineteenth century and a retiree with an anger-management problem in the face of an India whose right wing is rising. Fourteen well-crafted stories give us a...

Rafina looks at the glamorous girl on the billboard outside her window in Karachi and thinks, It won't be long before I'm up there. Too poor for college and dismissive of marriage, the clear-eyed young woman cajoles her mother's friend and Radiance beauty parlour...

Rahul Akerkar has a Masters in Biochemical Engineering from the US but is better known as a celebrity chef and owner of Mumbais fine dining restaurant, Indigo; Manohar Parikkar went to the prestigious IIT, Bombay but makes headlines as the honorable Chief Minister of...

Raine: Born in Brooklyn, the undisputed queen of the City, Raine owns the sexiest, starriest nightclub in New York - and no one is ever going to take her crown. Mei-Lin: The beautiful, enigmatic madam moves in all the right circles - but it...

Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have...

Read it: If you were betrayed by the one's you loved the most. If you love the floral mountains, huge valleys you won't mind getting lost, the echoing waterfalls, essence of barns, emerald lakes, ocean bed, clustery star nights, animal wilderness and snowy peaks...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and...

Reading this book is a humbling experience as it unravels a realization of how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. This is a book about pain and loss. But it's also a book about finding a home at last! "Walking the...

Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New...

Rishi Piparaiya's Aisle Be Damned is a tongue-in-cheek humour book that will make flying a lot more bearable. The book is filled with numerous tips and hilarious anecdotes on everything associated with air travel, from flirting with flight attendants to micro managing pilots to...

Riya has always had a secret ambition-winning the coveted Miss Indian Beauty crown. It's Riya's chance to turn fantasy into reality. The Miss Indian Beauty contest could well be her ticket to instant fame and success. After all, she's good-looking, intelligent, confident and, most...

Rumi is now acknowledged as one of the great mystical poets of the Western world, with huge sales of the many collections of his poetry. Not much is known about his life except that he lived in thirteenth-century Anatolia (now Turkey), had a great...

Samarth s (Sam s) life becomes hell after his Mom discovers a love letter he had written to a girl. Love at the age of ten? His Mom is all set to freak out! Sam hates everything around him. Danny s music class is...

Set in post Babri Masjid, post Pokhran Uttar Pradesh, this is the story of a woman in search of esoteric truths, caught in a world of prejudice, stagnation and violence.Nasreen grew up in London and in Paris with her mother Saira, a rebel poet....

She approached the next beggar and took off her shoes and gave them away. Who needed shoes now? The sidewalk was freezing but she didn't care. And finally the beggar woman- what did she have for her?

Ships That Pass tells the story of Tara and Shaan, near strangers to each other after fourteen years of being married, and Tara s sister, Radhika, recently engaged, almost on a whim, to someone she barely knows. Even as Radhika tries to understand how...

Shortlisted for the DSC Prize 2019Laconic, sharp and playful,and 99 Nights in Logarand is a stunning coming-of-age novel and a portrait of Afghanistan like no other, from an unforgettable new voiceMe and Gul and Zia and Dawoud out on the roads of Logar, together,...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize from the internationally admired new face of fiction author, Padma Viswanathan, comes a compelling new work. It is set among families of those who lost their loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, recording the unforeseen aftershocks...

Shyam Selvadurai pieces together the best of Sri Lankan poetry and fiction in this anthology. From the Sinhala and Tamil writers of the 1950s to diasporic writers of today, from stories of love and longing to those of brutality and death, this masterfully constructed...

Siddharth Rana, the Joint Director of the IB, is at his wits' end attempting to unravel that mystery. Working with the blindest of clues, Siddharth has to race against time to prevent terrorists from achieving their horrific goal--an India laid low by acatastrophe of...

Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Sinead Moriarty's riveting new novel,and Mad About You,and will make every reader stop and think about the importance of trust in relationships - how fragile it can be, how easily damaged, how hard to repair. Sinead combines the storytelling genius of Jodi Picoult, and...

Since ancient times, rishis in India have believed that it was love which came first and then followed the world. The origin and evolution of love in India is traced in an elaborate manner providing invaluable insights which makes this book a rare treasury...

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South Asia first found its English voice - in literature and in song - in the nineteenth century. It changed and morphed over two hundred years so that it now boasts of as many registers as there are languages and dialects within its geographical...

Stardust is an enchanting and enthralling novel from Sunday Times bestseller and master storyteller Neil Gaiman. 'Charming in every sense of the word, and deeply satisfying' (Time Out), it will delight fans of Terry Pratchett and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, as well as those...

Stimulating, elegant, distinctive and thought-provoking'and Theand Sunday TimesFrom the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofand Interpreter of Maladiesand comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting...

Strange Obsession is the story of the gorgeous young super-model Amrita Aggarwal. Within months of her arrival in Bombay, she is the envy of its beautiful people. Then, one day, she attracts the attentions of a mysterious woman called Minx. As the months pass...

Take your seat aboard SK502 on row 26 among four evolved souls, who through their life and living take you through an escapade that will change the way you see your own life - forever. The story is a fast paced adventure aboard a...

Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure...