It is 1947, and Evie and Martin Mitchell have just arrived in the Indian village of Masoorla with their five-year-old son. But cracks soon appear in their marriage as Evie struggles to adapt to her new life, and Martin fails to bury unbearable wartime memories. When Evie finds a collection of letters, concealed deep in […]
When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind ?? until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked […]
Kalli Purie has been constantly nagged by her weight problems all her life and has also come out of it. This is a story of how to lose weight and a number of diets to follow. She writes down every single factor that leads to losing weight. Be the next serial dieter!
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, The Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you and stay with you for ever. When Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably. Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy, and […]
Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, “the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc.” In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. […]
As if bad-hair days, scrounging for rent money, and lusting after designer shoes wasn enough to make Melanie Prescotts life interesting, suddenly shes chasing after obscure clues tossed her way by a madman. A mind-bending code spawned from the mind of a madman…or maybe just a jealous ex. A desperate race through the cathedrals and […]
Ask any Bombaywallah about Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society and you will be told that it is unimpeachably pucca. Despite its location close to the airport and being bordered by slums, it has been pucca for some fifty years. But then Bombay has changed in half a century not least its name […]
Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech […]
A young girl lies in a hospital room, her tattooed body very close to death — there is a bullet lodged in her brain. Several rooms away is the man who tried to kill her, his own body grievously wounded from axe blows inflicted by the girl he has tried to kill. She is Lisbeth […]
You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you??re stuck or paralyzed. You??re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to ??get unstuck? can put your career and […]
Saadat Hasan Mantos first collection of stories was published in the 1940s, but his stories have an enduring relevance. Now read by more people than ever before, the simple clarity of his stories about arginalized people, his astute understanding of the complexity of human nature and the poignancy of his stories on Partition transcend spatial […]
Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for the survival that illuminates, […]
Kaushik is a happy-go-lucky person, whose funny SMSs and sense of humour make him popular and loved by all. He has a perfect job, and has just met the love of his life Anushka. Surely life couldnt be better. And then, things take a turn for the worse as Mumbai is shaken by the terror […]
Shivraj is dead and with him the values with which he had governed the country for over a decade. While his successors destroy the idealistic world he had built, Shivraj??s circle of intimate friends??his sister Devi, the education minister; Usman Ali, vice chancellor of Delhi University; and Michael Calvert, an English writer??struggle to find order […]