MANU BHATTATHIRI is a Keralite settled in Bengaluru. He has worked as an advertising copywriter, a journalist and a college lecturer. At present he co-owns a small advertising agency. His previous book, Savithri’s Special Room and Other Stories, was widely…
Bloomsbury wins novel by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and bestselling author Cornelia Funke have collaborated on a novel inspired by del Toro’s 2006 classic filmPan’s Labyrinth, which has been acquired…
New Release from Westland: EATING WASPS by Anita Nair About the book: In a small town by the river Nila, a thirty-five-year-old writer kills herself. No one knows why. Fifty-two years later, an antique cupboard in a private resort opens to reveal a…
Westland to Publish The Friend by Teresa Drscoll On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them…
Westland to publish a book on Nouf Marwaai, first certified Yoga teacher in Saudi Arabia, in April-May 2019 Westland Publications Pvt. Ltd. (an Amazon company) today announced the acquisition of an authorized biography of Nouf Marwaai, the first certified Yogacharini in Saudi Arabia.…
Siddhartha Gigoo has earlier written The Garden of Solitude and A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories. The latter was long listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2015. Siddhartha also co-edited A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of…
Westland to Publish Ex-ISI Chief Asad Durrani’s memoir: Pakistan Adrift – Navigating Troubled Waters PAKISTAN ADRIFT Navigating Troubled Waters By ASAD DURRANI Releasing 20 August 2018 Asad Durrani served as a three star general in the Pakistan army, and later…
Bloomsbury to Publish A Table in Venice: Recipes from my home by Skye McAlpine Skye McAlpine, author of the successful blog From My Dining Table, offers an insider’s perspective on Venetian home cooking, illustrated with her stunning photographs ‘A real and…
Bloomsbury to Publish The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim ‘A beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning thirty years of Korean history’ Publishers’ Weekly ‘A wonderfully nuanced historical portrait’, Anita Sethi, Independent Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to…
Bloomsbury to Publish The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them…
Bloomsbury to Publish The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan Everything you need to know about the present and future of the world from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silk Roads, Peter…
Book Name: The Town that Laughed Author: Manu Bhattathiri Publisher: Aleph Genre: Fiction Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Change is coming to the tranquil town of Karuthupuzha, nestled deep within the lush Kerala countryside. The mighty black river, after which the town is named,…