Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India.
Ruskin Bond brings to the comfort and safety of your armchair collection of inspiring and hair raising stories of courage and wits, from dangerous and exotic locals all over the world.
