Book Name: Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle Author: Saifuddin Soz Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: In Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle, one of the most prominent voices of Kashmir, Saifuddin Soz takes a passionate…
Book Name: Great Textpectations Author: Ruchi Vadhera Publisher: Rupa Rating: 3/5 Book Blurb: Amaya Kapoor is a Delhi-based intellectually inclined thirty-five-year-old single, financially independent and sexually liberated woman, who wants to open a ‘boutique bookstore’ and live life on her own terms—single…
HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie wins 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction BLOOMSBURY INDIA is proud to announce that our author Kamila Shamsie is 2018 winner of Women’s Prize for Fiction At an awards ceremony in Bedford Square Gardens in central London last night, Wednesday…
Book Name: Daughters of the Sun Author: Ira Mukhoty Publisher: Aleph Book Company Rating: DNF Book Blurb: In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women…
Bloomsbury to Publish You’ve Got the Young Girl by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu What if the wrong girl is the one right for you? About the book: On a sultry night, on a deserted lawn overlooking a moonlit Taj Mahal, two strangers make passionate…
Bloomsbury to Publish Sita’s Curse by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu Somewhere, behind close doors, in her solitary world; somewhere under the sheets with an indifferent lover; somewhere, is a woman who will not be denied… About the book: Trapped for fifteen years in…
Bloomsbury to Publish Faraway Music by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu A liberated, dynamic and successful writer, Priya has everything she has ever wanted, until she’s revisited by her past… About the book: Faraway Music is the story of a young Bengali girl, and her…
Book Name: Elephants in the Room Author: Suraj Laxminarayanan Genre: Fiction Publisher: The Write Place Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: A ragtag group of friends are planning a bank heist to end their cash crunch. Novices to crime, they are driven more by emotions…
Book Name: A Higher Loyalty Author: James Comey Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: A riveting inside account of life and leadership at the heart of the FBI and high office in the United States of America. Former FBI director…
Pan Macmillan to Publish Rafina by Shandana Minhas Genre: Fiction Literary Contemporary Fiction – Novella Imprint: Picador India Hardback Price: Rs 450 172 pp Brilliantly observed, delightful and heartbreaking, this is the story of seventeen-year-old RAFINA and her big dreams…
Dress up for someone who doesn’t show up, or couldn’t. Come back, take a stroll in your empty apartment, tiptoe around in those shimmery grey stilettos; they will hurt more now. Pick your phone, click a selfie and in between…
Ira Mukhoty is the author of heroines, powerful Indian women of myth and history. She was educated in Delhi and Cambridge, where she studied natural sciences. After a peripatetic youth, she returned to Delhi to raise her two daughters. Living…