A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtais celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Along side vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. […]
Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own. […]
Hannah Shah is an Imams daughter. She lived the life of a Muslim but, for many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At 16, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she ran away. Hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were […]
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allens great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words Kipling will do, and thus set young Rudyard on […]
Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little […]
“A quintessentially Australian tale, told in a straightforward, unpretentious style. ” The Age Rarely does a truly great player reveal as much of himself and his sport as Steve Waugh does in his long-awaited autobiography. Waugh opens up on his personal life in a way few would expect of a man known in cricket circles […]
APJ Abdul Kalams autobiography depicts an extraordinary life: a child born into a little-educated family of boat-owners in Rameswaram—a small pilgrim town in Tamilnadu—who grew up to lead Indias space research and missile development programmes, and emerged as one of the most important scientist-leaders of our time. “Wings of Fire” is a powerful story of […]
“President Bill Clintons My Life is the candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.” “It shows us the progress of an American, who, through his own energies and efforts, made the journey from […]
Zoey Redbird is the youngest High Priestess in House of Night history and is the only person ?? vamp or fledgling ?? that can stop the evil Neferet from raising all kinds of immortal trouble. And she might just have a chance if she wasn??t so busy being dead. Well, dead is too strong a […]
Brian Weiss made headlines with his ground-breaking research on past life therapy in Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, based on his extensive clinical experience, he builds on the time-tested techniques for psychotherapy, revealing how regression to past lifetimes provides the necessary breakthrough to healing mind, body, and soul. Using vivid past life case studies, Dr. […]
In this book, the authors, who consider themselves fans and analysts in equal measure, follow the career of the cricketing demigod – his advent, his peak, his fall, and his resurrection. Armed with irrefutable statistical data, which they contextualize and analyse with rigour, the authors seek to end all debate on Tendulkars status as the […]
Sourav Ganguly is a difficult icon. He is undoubtedly one of Indias most successful captains, one who moulded a new team when India was at its lowest ebb, reeling from the betting scandal. There can be no argument about his cricketing genius, right from the time he scored a Test century at Lords to the […]
Sunny Days is the fascinating record of the growth of Indias greatest batsman; one whose astonishing feats on the cricket field have had innumerable records rewritten, and yet more difficult targets set. How did Sunil Manohar Gavaskar begin and what were the early days like? It is not merely out of curiosity that one may […]
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave “a lasting impression on the world.” Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting “another Columbine.” When […]