Editor | Fiction Afghanistan, 1977. Kanishka Nurzada, the son of a leading carpet seller, falls in love with his friend Maihan, with whom he shares his first kiss at the age of sixteen. Their romance must be kept secret in a nation where the death penalty is meted out to those deemed to be kuni,
Editor | Literary Fiction City of Girls (Bloomsbury) is a glittering coming-of-age epic stitched across the fabric of a lost New York from Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of the best-selling Eat Pray Love. It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her
Editor | Literary Fiction Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life
By A Correspondent New Delhi: Penguin Random House India on Thursday announced the upcoming publication of Man Booker prize-winning and internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie’s new novel Quichotte. This book was acquired by Penguin Random House India to be published under the Hamish Hamilton imprint in August 2019 in India. Hamish Hamilton is the imprint
Editor | Fiction The Demon’s Daughter is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishna’s son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of
Editor | Fiction Fatima Bhutto’s The Runaways is a dazzling and utterly relevant exploration of the rise of religious fundamentalism and its impact on today’s youth, an explosive novel that asks difficult questions about modern Muslim identity in a world on fire. Anita Rose lives in a concrete block in one of Karachi’s biggest slums,
Editor | Literary Fiction In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself hold up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must
Editor | Literary Ficton Patrick Ness, the multi-award-winning author of A Monster Calls takes the classic story of Moby Dick and turns the world upside down, creating a haunting and powerful modern myth. As with all Patrick’s novels, each one defies genre and takes a new and surprising turn and his next book is no
Editor | Fiction Did you know there was a time when bears spoke, the moon laughed and babies were found inside fish? Have you heard of the two-horned sage who had never seen a woman in his life? Did you know Ravana’s half-brother was the god of wealth? Have you ever seen a man with
Editor | Literary Fiction Alexandra , editor-in-chief at Bloomsbury publishing has acquired City of Girls, the new novel by the number one and international bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert. UK and Commonwealth rights (ex. Canada) were acquired from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency. Bloomsbury will publish City of Girls, an epic
