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.
From travel, suspense, crime, haunted houses, wicked and adventure stories from different periods and places all over the world, Ruskin Bond, our anthologizer par excellence, now shifts his focus. In a world rent apart with excitement good and bad this anthology brings together stories to restore one's faith in the goodness of human nature.
