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,…
Book Name: Acid Author: Sangeetha Sreenivasan Publisher: Penguin Random House India Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Two striking women, Kamala and Shaly, helm an unusual household, fuelled by their intense, tempestuous romance in a rapidly changing Bangalore. Downstairs, Kamala’s sons take care of…
Book Name: Politics for a New India: A Nationalistic Perspective Editor: Shri Prakash Singh Publisher: Rupa Publications Genere: Non fiction Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: This book may be treated, but with precaution, as indigenization of political science in India. This book is a…
Book Name: The Revolt of the Lamebren Author: Manjiri Prabhu Publisher: Readomania Genre: Fiction Rating: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: What if you are born with a termination date? Would you be ready to die at sixteen? In the Super-Dome of the future, Altklugs are…
Bloomsbury to Publish Ready To Fire: How India and I Survived the ISRO Spy Case by Nambi Narayanan & Arun Ram A top scientist is falsely accused of selling space technology secrets. A police inspector’s misadventure with a Maldivian woman results in a fabricated espionage case. A faction…
ASHTAMAHISHI: The Eight Wives of Krishna by Radha Vishwanath (Rs 295, 197 pp) ABOUT THE BOOK Krishna, the eternal lover, is believed to have charmed the heart of every woman he came across, and his marriage with 16,100 women is…
Mehr: A Love Story by Siddhartha Gigoo (Rs 295, 213pp) ABOUT THE BOOK ‘Thus, I begin, not at the beginning, but at the end when I had met her for the first time.’ Mehr, a Shia woman from Pakistan, falls in love…
SUCCEEDING THE AKSHAY KUMAR WAY by Virender Kapoor (Rs 195, 126 pp) ABOUT THE BOOK Akshay Kumar’s life offers the perfect recipe for a ‘happiness package’! What is success? Is it money, fame, health, family, respect, happiness, professional acclaim, and satisfaction? In fact,…