Historical fiction master Conn Iggulden retells the gripping story of the English civil war in his new Wars of the Roses series. King Henry V – the great Lion of England – is long dead. In 1437 his gentle son comes of age and takes the throne. Frail in body and mind, King Henry VI […]
A gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom.Sugamo Prison, Japan, October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or naked kill, he has developed […]
“The Collectors Daughter” by S.K. Das is a moving story set in Orissa and combines fact and fiction, history and personal narratives skillfully. Through its well sketched characters, the book is set against the backdrop of the 1866 famine that killed a third of Odishas population. The famine was so severe that women sold their […]
Perfect Eight tells a story that travels from Lahore to Kanpur to an Assamese cantonment to Patiala to Ambrosa to Bangalore, through floods and fires and communal riots proving that what began with Partition continues to play itself out decades after Indias soul and its people were divided.
From National Book Award finalist, Mitali Perkins, comes a dramatic tale about a displaced Indian family in the 1970s. When Asha??s father loses his job and leaves India to look for work in America, Asha Gupta, her older sister, Reet, and their mother must wait with Baba??s brother and his family, as well as their […]
Jim Heron, disgruntled fallen angel, thinks that he finally has a leg up against Devinia, a devils minion, in their fight over seven souls to end the war against good and evil. This is because Jim knows exactly which earthly soul he needs to save: a distant single father of a 13-year-old son. Luckily, Jim […]
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly controversial novel. When her husband files […]
??Jalauddin and his men are back in India, and within the next few weeks they will shake you and Kashmir like nothing before.?? With barely three months to go for the American President??s visit to India, Major Vijay Kaul learns of an incredible plot hatched by a rogue faction of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of the […]
John Rain kills people. For a living. His specialty: making it seem like death by natural causes. But he wont kill just anyone. The target must be a principal player. And never a woman. Half American, half Japanese-but out of place in both worlds-Rain is filled with opportunities. John Rain may not be a good […]
As World War II grinds to an end, the US President is told that the Waffen SS is preparing a last stand in the Bavarian Alps, where Hitler might prolong the war for another two years. So a plot is hatched to kill the Fuhrer in his bunker during April that same year.
Getting Back is a futuristic thriller, an eco-fable with a touch of Survivor, Mad Max, and Avatar. The worlds population has doubled. Wilderness exists only in old movies. Every region on Earth has been explored, organized, and tamed. But in this brave new age one secret organization promises the most forbidden pleasure of all: a […]
October 31 1984 begins like any other day for Gopal Pandey as he sets up his tea stall in a lane off Chandni Chowk, the most magnificent and crowded street in all Delhi. At its head lies Red Fort, once the home of the gem-encrusted Peacock Throne, symbol of the Mughal Empires dazzling might and […]
A fusion of Steven Pressfields Gates of Fire and the movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic culture. For three centuries, the stone barrier we know as Hadrians Wall shielded Roman Britain from the unconquered barbarians of the islands northern highlands. But when Valeria, […]