Ruskin Bond is India’s best-known living author. He has written over a hundred books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Among them are The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, Rain in the Mountains, A Book of Simple Living and Lone Fox Dancing. He received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1956, the Padma Shri in 1999, the Padma Bhushan in 2014 and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2024. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie with his adopted family. Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was an acclaimed author of over sixty books for adults and children. Born in England, she grew up in Narayanganj, India and later spent some years in Calcutta and Kashmir. Many of her novels, including Black Narcissus and The River, were made into movies. Some of her other popular works are Two Under the Indian Sun (co-written with sister Jon Godden), A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep, A House with Four Rooms and Gulbadan.
<p> Everyone goes to the hills—whether physically, or in their imagination—to find beauty, grace, and the best part of themselves. This set brings together two beautiful journals about living in the hills, alive to nature and the self.</p><p>In A Book of Simple Living, India’s most celebrated and beloved author writes about mist rising from the Doon Valley and rain sweeping across the Mussoorie hills; a whistling thrush drying her wings in the sun; the wind humming in the pines; a winter storm; cherry blossoms; the warmth of evenings with family and friends,</p><p>and the moon coming up between two deodars. In Rungli-Rungliot, one of the greats of modern English literature records in precise, spare prose the shades of green in the tea gardens spread over and across</p><p>the hills below Darjeeling; the smell of woodsmoke and flowers; the liberating effects of extreme solitude, and the eternal snows of the Kanchenjunga and Pandim peaks.</p><p>This set of two splendid memoir-cum-diaries will be cherished by everyone who loves the hills and mountains, and great nature writing.</p><div><br></div>
