You can't choose who you fall for...but it helps if there's a listWhen you're approaching thirty it's normal (if not incredibly annoying) for your family to ask when you'll tie the knot and settle down. But for Raina there's a whole community waiting for...

Winona Farmington can't help but feel that life is passing her by, in backwater Michigan town. She hates her job, her boyfriend won't commit. But she escapes the dreariness of everyday life with her favourite TV show, Beauchamp Hall, an English period drama.When she...

You can't choose who you fall for...but it helps if there's a listWhen you're approaching thirty it's normal (if not incredibly annoying) for your family to ask when you'll tie the knot and settle down. But forand Rainaand there's a whole community waiting for...

Sethji is the head of the ABSP, a crucial coalition partner in the government. Shrewd, ruthless and an inveterate fighter, he is a man who refuses to play by any moral codes or lose a single battle. Easing his way is Amrita, his ravishing...

Shehzada Shehryar

Restless and by Aamer Hussein starts with the arrival at a new place, and this seems a fitting way to embark on the journey of reading this book which has been written and compiled “instead of an autobiography. We begin by his recollection and...

To you therefore who accepted the first, I offer this Jfaitlier history of one of the various incarnations of that fatoortal. My hope is that after you have read her record, not- iA standing her subtleties and sins and the shortcomings iaf ber chronicler...

Dadi, the imperious matriarch of the Bandian family in Karachi, swears by the virtues of arranged marriage. All her ancestors including a dentally and optically challenged aunt have been perfectly well served by such arrangements. But her grandchildren are harder to please, a fiendishly...

Nakul Kapoor is back. To tell you the truth, he never left. The management at Bytesphere had simply forgotten about his existence. And then everything changed when his unit Hr cold-called him after reading his profile on 'Monster', the recruitment website, and asked him...

A vivid and intricate novel-in-stories, The Scatter Here Is Too Great explores the complicated lives of ordinary people whose fates unexpectedly converge after a deadly bomb blast at the Karachi train station: an old communist poet; his wealthy, middle-aged son; a young man caught...

The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. In Istanbul at a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous...

Shyamji has music in his blood, for his father was the acclaimed 'heavenly singer' and guru, Ram Lal. But Shyam Lal is not his father, and knows he never will be. Mallika Sengupta's voice could have made her famous, but being the wife of...

"Jagernath". The last word of a dying man is the only clue foreign minister Sadia Sharif's ex-ADC Captain Gul Khan has when he foils an assassination bid on a top military general closely linked to Pakistan's nuclear programme. CIA's dirty blonde agent Eve, who...

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.4pt;line-height:21.0pt;background: #FCFCFC"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:andquot;Helveticaandquot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family:andquot;Times New Romanandquot;;color:#383838;background:yellow">We're offering a high discount on this book as it is slightly damagedThis unusually prescient novel is set in the early post-Independence years, when a new republic eagerly looks forward to a future full of hope. Rakesh,...

Zoya's life turns upside down with the diagnosis of Zaki's autism. Trigerred by the trauma of her oldest child's condition Zoya plummets into chronic anxiety and depression. Zoya's strength of faith and irrepressible optimism carries her through to Zaki's teenage years wherein he has...

With six unmarried sisters and a perennially drunk father, Pinku, a 19 year old school dropout, has only one dream left: to marry the plump girl who'd caught him stealing flowerpots. His friend and confidant, 17 year old Bhandu, is not fairing any better...

Anuj, a young professional, is just getting by from day to day when the beautiful and vivacious Pakhi walks into his life and turns it upside down. Love blossoms and Anuj is convinced that she is the one for him. But when all is...

"Fully lives up to the hype. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing,and Eileenand is effortlessly stylish and compelling." (Robert Douglas-Fairhurstand The Times)"A sucker punch of a novel, full of fury and disgust, heart-wrenching in places, a masterclass...

In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, Saeed and Nadia share a cup of coffee, and their story begins. It will be a love story but also a story about war and...

She belongs in the cities of Europe, by her handsome husband's side.and But here she is, in a village on the edge of Africa.and No one knows why she is here and what she is hiding from. And she is not going to tell...

Winona Farmington can't help but feel that life is passing her by in her backwater Michigan town. She hates her job, and her boyfriend won't commit. But she escapes the dreariness of everyday life with her favourite TV show, Beauchamp Hall, an English period...

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Polite Society

'Fresh, intelligent, and bold: Mira Sethi's stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in Pakistan' Mohsin HamidChildhood best friends decide to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young heiress embarks on a secret affair, ending in devastation but not...

Shehzada Shehryar

From the legendary author ofand THE GODFATHERand comes a novel of the original Italian crime familyFifteenth-century Italy. The Renaissance is in full swing, heralding a new golden age for Europe. But where there is gold - and power - there are those who are...

Moving, modern and utterly engaging. What a talent' Rhik Samadder, author ofand I Never Said I Love You Sensitive, smooth-toned and absorbingly honest' Diana Evans, author ofand Ordinary PeopleA heart-wrenching and beautifully told debut novel about love, family obligation and finding your way.Nur and...

A gripping read - everything beautifully evoked, from the alleys of the Old City to the atmosphere of corruption and secrets.' Kamila ShamsieA spellbinding debut set in Pakistan during the anarchic late '60s - a multi-layered tale of family, identity and the politics of...

Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer.So when...

A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.'and Guardian'A reminder to prize every moment we get with her on the page.'and Financial Times'When a book reaches out and speaks to a reader so clearly, one can hardly do anything but recommend it in...

Captivating and heartbreaking'and Stylist Brought me close to tears' Beth O'Leary, author ofand The Flatshare A romantic, bittersweet debut … an incredibly powerful read'and Daily Mirror Expect to be heartbroken'and ElleAn unforgettable debut novel about first love, family obligation and finding your way.In the...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland - Excuse...