Professor Saifuddin Soz is a former Union minister and a highly respected senior politician from Kashmir with a long and distinguished parliamentary career. An economist by training, he also has a great understanding of Kashmir’s history and culture. One of…
Ruchi Vadehra belongs to a family of writers from both sides of parentage. Writing is thus homecoming to her. She began with conceptualizing and co-editing a neighbourhood community newsletter which inspired her to take forward her zest for words, people…
CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT OF FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 WITH THESE FASCINATING READS FROM BLOOMSBURY Ever pulsating world of football, a dense network of super rich magnates who own the soccer clubs; origins of English premier league; a charismatic manager…
Book Name: Invisible Ties Author: Nadya A R Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4.7/5 Book Blurb: As Karachi burned in the 1990s, the painfully shy Noor Kamal found refuge in an antique jade mirror stolen from Daisy, her social butterfly mother. One fateful…
Book Name: The Shape of Water Authors: Guillermo Del Toro and Daniel Kraus Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: The most celebrated movie of the year is now the must-read novel of 2018. “[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in…
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…