A boy spends a summer and a winter with his parents in a Bombay high-rise, and spends other summers in Calcutta immersed in the more traditional life of his uncles extended family … A young man at Oxford, whose memories of home in Bombay bring both comfort and melancholy, faces a choice between “clinging to […]
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace […]
“The Hungry Tide is a contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks […]
Finance expert, Tara Malhotra, forced to quit her job and follow her husband on a job promotion and transfer back from the States ? and hating every minute of it ? decides to bring some excitement into her empty, high-society Mumbai life by indulging her taste for contemporary Indian art. Determined to set up an […]
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldnt sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer and a bouncer, he knew how to handle himself – and had a huge protective streak. He sold his house to raise […]
Portrait of India presents Ved Mehtas impressions of his native land—his first-hand report on Indias villages and cities, its religions, politics, and wars, its poets, philosophers, maharajas, and priests. Published in 1970 to great acclaim and now reissued with a new preface by its renowned author, the book has a singular power to evoke the […]
First published to rave reviews in 1967, this compelling novel follows Stephanie from her childhood in France, through her fathers mysterious disappearance, her emigration to America, her adolescence in New York, her marriage, her children, and ultimately her self-liberation, with each phase illustrating the painful ambivalence toward the irreconcilable poles of love and freedom.
Elizabeth and Richard, 18 years married, have come to Morocco on holiday. As the adventures and disasters of their travels unfold, so too does Elizabeths account of the desert her life has become. The authors book “Circles of Deceit” was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize.
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe–a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by […]
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships is a 1964 bestselling book by psychiatrist Eric Berne. Since its publication it has sold more than five million copies. The book describes both functional & dysfunctional social interactions. In the 1st half, he introduces Transactional Analysis as a way of interpreting social interactions. He describes three […]
As I Lay Dying is Faulkners harrowing account of the Bundren familys odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members??including Addie herself??the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. This edition follows the text of As I Lay […]
The plot of Washington Square has the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-hearted young woman, the only child of a rich widower, is pursued by a charming but unscrupulous man who seeks the wealth she will presumably inherit. On this premise, Henry James constructed one of his most memorable novels, a story in which […]
A haunting tale of romantic self-deception, The Return of the Nativefocuses on mismatched lovers who see in each other only what they want to see, and decidedly not what is actually there. Clym Yeobright, the native of the title, returns to Hardy??s fictional Egdon Heath determined to be a force for social progress. Dazzled by […]
Agatha Christies genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart–or the dark passions that can stop it–better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime. Destination Unknown Thomas Charles Betterton, a famous scientist, has vanished. […]