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1. Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Penguin Hamish Hamilton
Print Length: 256 pages
Release Date: 20 September 2022
Price: ₹334.00
Review
The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom'-is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what the Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for freedom-a chasm or a bridge?-the streets fell silent. Not only in India but all over the world. Covid-19 brought with it another, more terrible, understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, Roy says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.
About The Author
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Both novels have been translated into more than forty languages.
My Seditious Heart, published in 2019, collects the work of a two-decade period during which Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment.
2. Fairy Tale
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Print Length: 592 pages
Release Date: 20 September 2022
Price: ₹780.00
Review
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her ageing master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
King's storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy - and his dog - must lead the battle.
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.
One of the great storytellers of our time ― Guardian
A fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it ― Daily Express
A dazzlingly shapeshifting novel that, like its antihero, only pretends to be easy to pigeonhole. Disciplined but adventurous, equally good at action scenes and in-depth psychology ― The Sunday Times on Billy Summers
A thriller with a surprisingly heartfelt and redemptive ending, Billy Summers is a compelling and engrossing read ― Sunday Express on Billy Summers
About The Author
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include The Institute, which was described by the Sunday Express as a 'masterpiece', The Outsider (voted winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best Mystery and Thriller 2018), and If It Bleeds.
Many of his titles have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including IT, 'a book which speaks to everybody' (Guardian), The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.
King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.
3. Hooked: A Never After Novel: 1
Author: Emily McIntire
Publisher: Bloom Books
Print Length: 416 pages
Release Date: 20 September 2022
Price: ₹450.00
Review
From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan.
He wants revenge, but he wants her more...
James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter's twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James's bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It's the perfect plan, until things in James's organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.
Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can't seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she's falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.
About The Author
Emily McIntire is an Amazon top 20 author of painful, messy, beautiful romance. She doesn't like to box herself into one subgenre, but at the core of all her stories is soul deep love. A long time songwriter and an avid reader, Emily has always had a passion for the written word, and when she's not writing you can find her waiting on her long lost Hogwarts letter, chasing her crazy toddler, or lost between the pages of a good book.
4. Marple: Twelve New Stories
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins
Print Length: 384 pages
Release Date: 15 September 2022
Price: ₹495.00
Review
A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.
This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.
Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930’s The Murder at the Vicarage. It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie’s last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time.
'Each author captures Christie ― and Marple ― perfectly, while also displaying just a bit of her own unique touch’ – The Washington Post
‘Without a doubt, the greatest mystery writer of all time’ – Ragnar Jonasson
‘A hundred years after her first novel, and we are all still standing in her shadow’ – Andrew Taylor
‘Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers’ – Val McDermid
‘She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed’ – Susan Lewis
‘Dame Agatha has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible’ – David Baldacci
‘All crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt’ – Peter James
‘Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.’ – Tana French
About The Author
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Alyssa Cole is an award-winning author of historical, contemporary, and SFF romance. Her books have received critical acclaim from The New York Times, Library Journal, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, Booklist, Jezebel, Vulture, Book Riot, and Entertainment Weekly. She can usually be found watching anime with her husband or wrangling their menagerie of animals.
Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry – during which time she also wrote her debut, The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time, and is busy travelling (for research, naturally!) and working on her next novel.
Visit her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LucyFoleyAuthor and follow her on Twitter @lucyfoleytweets
Val McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.
5. Do the Hard Things First
Author: Scott Allan
Publisher: Sanage Publishing House
Print Length: 232 pages
Release Date: 9 September 2022
Price: ₹359.00
Review
Break the Procrastination Habit, Accelerate Your Productivity, and Take Control of Your Life NOW. Are you living in chaos because you constantly put off critical tasks until the last minute? Do you feel disorganized both at home and at work? Do you experience feelings of anxiety, frustration, and helplessness with all your incomplete projects? If so, it’s time to defeat the procrastination habit and rewire your habits for doing difficult work now. “Reinvent Your Approach to Doing Difficult Work and Stop Delaying to Live Your Life.” Bestselling author and personal development trainer, Scott Allan, wants you to defeat procrastination, eliminate negative self-talk and overcome lazy tendencies to delay hard work. In this hands-on practical guide, you’ll learn Scott's step-by-step method to destroy bad habits and end self-sabotage so that you can stop guilting yourself for working hard but getting nothing done. In Do the Hard Things First, you’ll discover how to: Control self-defeating distractions and manage Shiny Object Syndrome. Identify key constraints holding you back and take massive action for optimal results. Avoid doing random tasks and time block your critical work.
Identify negative coping mechanisms and develop a great work ethic. Implement daily exercises for making better choices and building greater confidence in decision-making. Structure and schedule your life to guard against delaying important work. Do the Hard Things First is structured to save you time, increase mental energy, and teach you to think from a mindset built with confidence by removing fear. You’ll learn how to focus in on your #1 tasks for the day, eliminate overwhelm, and become the best version of yourself in both your work and in life. “Today, Not Tomorrow. Do It Now, Not Later.” It’s Time for a Change. It’s time to start winning instead of losing to the battle that has consumed your life—the battle against procrastination. From today, stop being mean to yourself, develop superior discipline and self control, and do whatever it takes to eliminate the stress and anxiety procrastination creates. Stop Wasting Time—Scroll up NOW and Click the BUY NOW button to Discover How to Beat Procrastination and Get Hard Work Done!
About The Author
***Transforming ten million lives...one life at a time."
With his books published in 6 languages, and over 200,000 copies sold worldwide, Scott Allan is on a mission to transform the human potential.
Scott is the bestselling author of Fail Big, Relaunch Your Life, and Do the Hard Things First. As a former corporate business trainer in Japan, and Transformational Success Strategist, he has invested over 10,000 hours of practice and research into the areas of confidence development and mindset mastery training.
With an unrelenting passion for teaching, building critical life skills, and inspiring people around the world to take charge of their lives, he is committed to a path of constant and never-ending self-improvement. You can contact Scott Allan for podcasting and speaking engagements at scottallan@scottallanpublishing.com
6. The Tiger Throne: Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan Retold
Author: Preetha Rajah Kannan
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Print Length: 688 pages
Release Date: 10 September 2022
Price: ₹559.00
Review
The Chola kingdom needs a strong ruler and the Tiger Throne a new master.
Rival factions stake their claim to the Chola throne as a power struggle ensues with Emperor Sundara Chola’s failing health.
The air is thick with political intrigue. On one side stands Prince Madurandaka, supported by the ruthless Pazluvur chieftains. On the other is Prince Arulmozlivarman, the future Raja Raja Chola, one of the greatest emperors in Indian history. The Pazluvur chieftains take the emperor hostage and civil war looms over the Chola kingdom.
History and fiction merge to weave a story of vengeance and romance, disguised princes and beautiful princesses, secret passages and dark dungeons, evil sorcerers and master spies…
Who will emerge victorious in this dangerous and thrilling game to seize the throne?
About The Author
Preetha Rajah Kannan has written five books on Indian mythology, edited a translation of the Telugu Navagraha Purana and contributed to several newspapers and magazines. A homemaker and mother to two sons, she lives in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
7. What We Owe The Future : A Million-Year View
Author: William MacAskill
Publisher: Oneworld
Print Length: 352 pages
Release Date: 20 September 2022
Price: ₹393.00
Review
The fate of the world is in our hands.
Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more – or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today.
In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human.
If we put humanity’s course to right, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.
About The Author
William MacAskill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University. His academic work spans a breadth of fields within normative philosophy, including practical ethics, population ethics, social choice theory and decision theory. At age 28, he became the youngest tenured professor of philosophy in the world. MacAskill is the cofounder of Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, the Centre for Effective Altruism and the Oxford University-based Global Priorities Institute.
8. The Ink Black Heart
Author: Robert Galbraith
Publisher: Sphere
Print Length: 1024 pages
Release Date: 7 September 2022
Price: ₹674.00
Review
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.
Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .
A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
About The Author
Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy. All five Strike novels, The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, and Troubled Blood, topped the national and international bestseller lists and the series has been adapted for television
9. The Sea Hawk : Life and Battles of Kanhoji Angrey
Author: Manohar Malgonkar
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Print Length: 340 pages
Release Date: 30 August 2022
Price: ₹391.00
Review
Seventeenth-century India. Chhatrapati Shivaji's dominion has been firmly established over the Deccan peninsula. Troubled by the mounting European threat along the Konkan coast, the Maratha empire turns to Kanhoji Angrey, master mariner, excellent swordsman and astute strategist, to lead its navy. For the next few decades, until his death in 1729, no matter who rules the land or lords over the trading settlements, none can defy Kanhoji's hold over the waters of the Konkan coast.
Join Kanhoji on his many adventures and naval campaigns as he courts danger and evades capture. Manohar Malgonkar's thrilling storytelling in The Sea Hawk brings to life this 'Lord of the Konkan'.
Long out of print, this Indian classic is once again available in a stunning new edition!
'The swashbuckling tale of Kanhoji Angrey, the seventeenth-century sea admiral who fought the British and the Dutch with admirable courage and gallantry, has inspired generations. And no one tells it better than master storyteller Manohar Malgonkar. It's wonderful to see this classic revived sixty-five years after its original write.'- Pritish Nandy, poet, journalist and maker of films
Kanhoji Angrey's is the second most important story, after Chhatrapati Shivaji, that unfolded in the rocky and rough terrains of Maharashtra. Kanhoji, however, isn't as lucky as Chhatrapati Shivaji. The visionary warrior who laid the foundation of India's navy has largely been forgotten. The Sea Hawk is the story of the late Maratha fighter narrated by one of the master storytellers of our times, Manohar Malgaonkar. This captivating real-life fiction is a must-read for students of history and the common man alike. It's a tribute to one of our unsung heroes.' - Girish Kuber, author and editor, Loksatta
'This lively and well written account of a famous Maratha naval commander ... sweeps the reader along at a rattling pace.' - The Times Literary Supplement, London
'Very readable ... full of historical information.' - The Times of India
'A book of historical biography so skillfully done.' - All India Radio
'A rare combination of history and literature.' - The Hindu
About The Author
Manohar Malgonkar (1913-2010) was an eminent post-Independence writer whom R.K. Narayan once referred to as his ‘favourite Indian novelist in English'. Born near Belgaum, Malgonkar was the grandson of the prime minister of a former princely state of Dewas. He served in the army during World War II, was a big-game hunter, a farmer, a mine owner and an adventurer. Later, he started working as a journalist and thereafter took to book writing. His works are as diverse as his personal life and have a blend of history, romance and military life. Many of his works have been translated into several European languages. In an article published in The New York Times in 1965, he was hailed as ‘one of India's most exuberant storytellers'.
10. TARA: A woman's journey from Fear through Faith to Freedom
Author: Vibha Gurtu
Publisher: Notion Press
Print Length: 242 pages
Release Date: 30 August 2022
Price: ₹349.00
Review
Do you trust your intuitions?
Is it your soul’s desire to break free?
Are you stuck in an emotional loop with your partner?
The gifted can also be stuck in a loop unable to untangle themselves. Such is the story of Tara. Her journey shows how problems, situations and people can diminish the light of even those destined to shine. Toxic partners can break our confidence, emotionally exhaust us, make us question our reality and trivialise our intuition. It takes Tara years to find the will to recognise the problem and find her faith to break through the shackles to recreate her life. Through this novel Vibha shows that between the omens, spirits and higher guidance, each of us has the wisdom to bring a shift and take the reins of life back in our hands. Each soul is gifted.
Choose your journey.
About The Author
Vibha is a practitioner and facilitator of Shamanism and an intuitive healer. Trained in reiki, pranic healing, hypnotherapy, taro card reading and others, she founded Aumtara, a spiritual hub, in New Delhi. Vibha is a soul coach, spiritual guide, talk therapist and an image consultant. She uses her learning and experience to create inner and outer balance.
Vibha assists people to break repetitive patterns to achieve life goals through clarity. She provides holistic healing to bring a shift internally in thoughts and externally with behaviour and appearance. She has conducted numerous workshops on image makeover, relationships and empowerment at individual and corporate levels. To learn more, visit www.vibhagurtu.com
Very interesting books ... keep it up
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