Editor | Books for Children “We will tell you a story” said Dovey. “We will tell you the story you wanted to hear.” The Rose Garden has always been famous for its marvellous tales of adventure, survival and travel recounted there. One evening, Shikar the squirrel’s favourite doves – Lovey and Dovey – narrate a
By A Correspondent New Delhi: Children of Blood and Bone by 24-year-old author Tomi Adeyemi has exploded into a global phenomenon. Entertainment Weekly called Adeyemi “the new J.K. Rowling” and readers and critics alike are calling this fantasy novel inspired by both West Africa and the American black experience ground-breaking, relevant, and impossible to put
By A Correspondent New Delhi: Pan Macmillan has announced its acquisition of Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. This will be published under the Tor imprint in the UK. Tor will also publish in the US. This is a new science fiction novel from the Sunday Times and no.1 New York Times
Editor | Fiction In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami’s visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver,
By A Correspondent The latest novel by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a prestigious award that evening from the country’s president,
Editor | Non-fiction Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn’t. Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order
Editor | Fiction The year is 1950; the Liaquat-Nehru Pact has been signed between India and Pakistan; she doesn’t know it will change her life forever; it will also make her stronger. Bibi Amrit Kaur’s life is torn apart in the 1947 riots. She’s now in a different country with a different identity. She accepts
Editor | Non-fiction The Great Game raged through the wilds of Central Asia during the nineteenth century, as Imperial Russia and Great Britain jostled for power. Tsarist armies gobbled up large tracts of Turkestan, advancing inexorably towards their ultimate prize, India. These rivals understood well that the first need of an army in a strange
Editor | Non-fiction Based on extensive first-hand research, interviews, and archival sources that have been overlooked for decades, as well as drawing on Jung Chang’s own memories of growing up in Maoist China. The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were
By A Correspondent Everything around us seems to be in a state of balance: light complements darkness, day complements night, and so on. In a similar fashion, the human mind also craves balance (emotional, spiritual, mental and physical) but it is surprising to know that the human mind, itself can find balance deep within. Shayamal
