Four of us. Lourdes, María, Cora, Lucia. We had once been five, before
Graciela left us. All of these cuentos belong to us. Trust us when we
take your hands.
Graciela is raised in the shadow of El Salvador's Izalco volcanos, dusty-
kneed and bound closely to her friends. Her life changes entirely when a
messenger from the Capital comes to claim her. At nine years old she has
been selected to work as an oracle to the country's fearsome dictator, who
believes she is a muse capable of foreseeing the future of El Salvador.
Brought to the city, far from her mother and friends, Graciela is introduced to
Consuelo, the sister she’s never known. Consuelo is wilful, talented and
desirous, and despite their differences the girls are a small fortress within the
dictator’s regime.
La Matanza - the brutal massacre that tore through El Salvador in 1932 - will
change their lives, and their country, forever. But neither ever gives up hope
that they might be reunited once more. Narrated by a chorus of victims of the
massacre - ghost girls who have died, but who have not yet finished telling
their story - The Volcano Daughters is an unforgettable story about
resilience, reinvention and sisterhood.
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A SINISTER TALE OF BETRAYAL AND REDEMPTION
Dismissed from the Army and battling his own demons, ex-special forces officer and recovering alcoholic Mihir Pratap Singh’s world is shattered when a close friend and former colleague is found murdered near a remote outpost in Northeast India. Jolted out of his apathy, a determined Mihir joins forces with fellow ex-officers in his search for justice. Their relentless pursuit of the truth takes them beyond the Seven Sisters, deep into an intricate web of deceit, greed, lust and brutality that shakes up even their hardened souls.
How are his friend’s death and these shocking conspiracies linked? Who is the shadowy figure calling the shots? What other mysteries are lurking in the treacherous mountains of the Northeast? Secrets are revealed and loyalties are tested as their quest for answers hurtles towards a chilling climax.
Gripping, pacy and unputdownable, Black Sol will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last page
Talking about the book Col. Sachin Warty says, ‘Northeast India’s sheer physical beauty, and relaxed pace of life was my catharsis. It gave me the time and opportunity to indulge in a dormant urge – to write – and I fell back on thrillers, as that genre with its dark take and gripping plots, always excited me. And Black Sol was the result. This is a first in a series of thrillers which I hope will enthrall readers.’
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Through the shadowy depths of the 15th Century, emerges the enigmatic life of Francis
Itty Cora, a pepper merchant with a mesmerizing, scandalous past. A cunning
businessman, a mathematical genius, a revered god for the mysterious cult, the '18th
Clan', and a man of uncontrolled sexual desires, Cora bedazzles and befuddles.
When Xavier Itty Cora, a modern-day descendant and ex US Marine, seeks to uncover
the secrets of his ancestor's legacy, enlisting the help of Kochi-based scholar and
sensual priestess Rekha and her friends and lovers, an intricate history shrouded in
secrecy, myths and reality unveils. As facts and fiction blend, the narrative travels
between America's war in Iraq to ancient Alexandria and Renaissance Florence,
weaving a fascinating narrative that provocatively reimagines history.
With its intricate plot twists and astonishing characters, T.D. Ramakrishnan's Francis
Itty Cora, a classic in Malayalam literature, is unputdownable and unforgettable.
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If you've been wondering whether India will ever produce a world-class rock band,
think no further. The Flow is here.'
Nirvana's life is a mess--he is a jilted lover, a bored addict and a disillusioned journalist.
Nothing, it seems, can get him out of his funk.
Until one afternoon, when he discovers a pile of back issues of India's premier youth
magazine from the 1970s, Junior Standard. An article on a famed rock contest of the
time catches his eye. It mentions a band called The Flow and their frontman, Max
Bulandi, hailed as India's answer to Jim Morrison. Nirvana is consumed by the article
and when a chance meeting with an old Bombay rocker whets his appetite further, he
embarks on a search for the mysterious Max Bulandi and the early pioneers of the
Indian rock music scene. As he traces the lost history of The Flow across Bombay,
Calcutta, Shillong and Benares, it opens up to him a world of riffs and beats that
transforms his life quite completely.
Exhilarating and utterly original, The Extraordinary Life of Max Bulandi is at once a
coming-of-age story with a twist and a much-awaited hat-tip to the legends of Indian
rock music.
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A love story about friendship. A fable for grown-ups, with illustrations by Stina Wirsen.
The Squirrel's greatest joy is dancing in the forest with the Rabbit--her beloved friend and equal of heart. While the duo is inseparable, fate has other ideas: the feisty Squirrel is forcibly married to a wealthy boar and the solitary Rabbit enlists in a monastery. Years later, a brief, tragic reunion finds them both transformed by personal defeats. And yet, to each other, they are unchanged, and their private world--where sorrow registered as rapture and wit concealed loss--is just how they had left it. A story of thwarted love, and an ode to the enduring pleasures of friendship, The Rabbit and the Squirrel is a charmed fable for grown-ups, in which one life, against all odds, is fated for the other.
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Michael Madhusdan Dutt (1824-1872), a maverick who changed the scope of Bengali poetry in the nineteenth century, especially with his free-verse epic, 'Meghnadhbadh Kabya', was a genius who never got his due. Throughout his life, Madhusudan was caught in an identity crisis: he wrote in the English language, changed his religion and was a restless traveller, yearning to belong somewhere. After an extended sojourn in London and Paris, with misery and poverty as his constant companions, the poet finally found his metier in his mother tongue. Betrayed By Hope, a play-script based on the letters Michael Madhusudan Dutt wrote to friends, well-wishers and patrons, paints the portrait of an artist as he plunges headlong into crisis after crisis, even as his
imagination and creativity soar. Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal pay tribute to his extraordinary life in a story that will lay bare our deep-set contradictions about art and life.
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Lily is a vlogger with a love for nature and gumboots. When she discovers that she is related to the royal family of the beautiful kingdom of Bagradoo, she jumps at the opportunity to experience the natural wonders of the island.
Bagradoo is gorgeous, the palace is lavish and the royal family is gracious, but Lily has never felt more out of place. Between struggling to find the perfect outfit and connecting with her eccentric hosts, she begins to notice strange things going on around her. Is the island in danger?
Accompanied by a fashionable princess, a thief with a good heart, a wacky professor and her snarky robotic diary, Lily must put together an unlikely crew to save Bagradoo.
‘Go royal and royal-ish as you travel to the exotic Bagradoo.’ — Ruskin Bond, bestselling children’s author
‘Royal-ish is a rollicking tale ... easy to read, hard to put down.’ — Zai Whitaker, author and naturalist
Nirmal Chandra Mattoo has lived in Port Blair, in the Andamans, for thirty years. An acknowledged expert on the tribes of the islands, particularly the Jarawas and the Sentinelese, he now runs a souvenir shop selling fake tribal artifacts to unsuspecting tourists. In the shop, he hides dark secrets and a long history with the people of the islands.
One day, an American missionary appears in Mattoo’s shop and seeks his help to visit North Sentinel Island, where he hopes to bring the Sentinelese tribals to Jesus. Mattoo agrees, but also has deep misgivings, because the Sentinelese are among the last uncontacted people on earth; their stone-age civilization has survived in complete isolation for thousands of years, and their hostility has made their island a zone forbidden to outsiders.
Undeterred, the missionary sets off on his mission, and Mattoo, as his guide, finds himself embroiled in a situation from which there can be no escape, as the fate of the Sentinelese, his own fate, and that of the Indian State all come together in a catastrophic denouement.
Island is a searing examination of nationhood, citizenship, the lot of those who live on the margins, and what it means to be Indian today.
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Three books in a happy box—funny stories and funnier poems by some of India’s oddest, maddest, cleverest writers.
A girl who turns into a sloth. A horse who goes to a library to gobble up classics. Merry ghosts who dance to really terrible music. Fat cats that lounge on mats. Sharks that gobble up and burp. Children who make their mummy giggle.
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Clove has spent years building the perfect life. It's about to come crashing down.
To the outside world, Clove has it all. Thanks to her lies, she's landed the life of her dreams, complete with a kind, reliable husband, two adorable children, a stable family home. So what, if silencing the memories of her own abusive childhood means racking up a little credit card debt or obsessing about her wellness routine? Nothing to see here.
But then a letter arrives from a women's prison in California – a letter that threatens to expose the secrets of a past she has worked so hard to hide. Soon, Clove will become caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the very people she thought she had outrun. No amount of shopping, green juice or meditation can help her avoid the defining day of her life forever.
Brave, hilarious and full of surprising twists, Madwoman is a story about violence, recovery, and Clove's refusal to be defined by her worst experiences.