A wonderfully written and engaging memoir of Jacqueline Wilsons life as a teenager – her problems with her family, first love, her school life and her friends. Read extracts from her real secret teenage diaries and the stories she wrote as a teenager, to build up a fascinating picture of a real teenager and her […]
In the middle of the night at the Museum of Volterra, young archeologist Fabrizio Castellani is immersed in his work – research into the famous Etruscan statue known as he shade of twilight. Completely engrossed, he is startled by the phone ringing. An icy female voice warns him to abandon his work at once. A […]
After his well received series based on The Ramayana, Ashok K. Banker has brought out his first book in a series of eight on the legend of Krishna. The story begins as Ugrasena, the aging king of Mathura, is dethroned and put in captivity by his evil son Kamsa. As Kamsa??s reign of oppression overtakes […]
From East Bengal to Tamil Nadu, When the Lotus Blooms captures the mood and ethos of the rich landscape and diversity of India, while highlighting the universal and timeless circumstances of women and their struggle to seek happiness in a patriarchal world. The novel follows the arc of two Brahmin families in 1930s British Colonial […]
The book, Arranged Marriage, is the debut novel of the author. It has gathered much praise from its readers. This book throws light on the issues faced by the Indian woman, who is stuck with cultural changes, and is free at the same time, battling to make a life for herself. The book gives a […]
The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the evil demon of darkness, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors, that lives on. The voice of the […]
The brand new Covert-One novel in the series created by the undisputed master of the thriller genre, Robert Ludlum. Jon Smith is attending a W.H.O. conference in The Hague on infectious diseases and wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes the shooter, and finds three pictures […]
The Tacit Dimension . . . gives us a new opportunity to see how far-reaching??and foundational??Michael Polanyi??s ideas are, on some of the age-old questions in philosophy.????Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and Lamont University Professor at Harvard University. An authority in physical chemistry, as well as in economics and […]