‘Excellent’ Timothy Snyder
‘Definitive’ Jason Stanley
‘Masterful and chilling’ Paul Mason
‘A distress signal … Read this book’ Rutger Bregman
Fascism is back. This time no swastikas, Nazi flags, or deadly bureaucracy, but MAGA hats, right-wing extremist memes, and a triumphant fist held high. For the first time in modern history, far right parties in some European countries have won a larger share of the votes than the Conservatives and the Social Democrats.
Fascism hollows out democracies from within. It starts with language, not tanks. With democratic elections, not a coup.
But how do fascists mobilise citizens? How has fascism become normalised in Europe again? And how do we stop it?
THE CLASSIC JAPANESE MYSTERY – from the author of The Honjin Murders
‘The master of ingenious plotting’ Guardian
Fear looms over the luxurious Furugami estate. The beautiful, young Yachiyo Furugami, plagued by episodes of sleepwalking, receives a series of cryptic letters culminating in an ominous warning: ‘Walk not at night’.
Then a body is discovered, decapitated with a centuries-old samurai sword. The police are baffled, so the famous sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi is called upon to solve the mystery, but before he can do so, the killer strikes again. Can Kindaichi get to the truth before the Furugami family is destroyed by its own secrets?
A novel of the Bombay Mill Strike of 1982
There’s a lot going on at Tenduwadi Chawl. Vinod’s friends are practising for the big cricket match between Building No. 1 and Building No. 2. Radha’s friends are arguing over two Bollywood heroes. Everyone seems to be fighting, falling in love and keeping secrets.
Little wonder, then, that it takes the children of Tenduwadi Chawl some time to realize that their world is changing. The Bombay Mill Strike has begun and the air is thick with suspicion. Old acquaintances are turning into strangers. Then, one evening, Vinod follows the Building No. 2 cricket team to Star Mill Compound and stumbles upon an ugly mystery.
Award-winning author Shabnam Minwalla’s novel is both gripping and layered, and paints a vivid picture of a time of the city’s transformation.
The Chronicles of Courage series looks at moments and movements in India after independence that have shaped the life of the nation.
A novel of the Bangladesh War of 1971
Dhiman is most excited to meet Ruhul, a refugee from East Pakistan. All he and his classmates can talk about is the war that is sure to happen, and Ruhul’s friendship gives him a unique insight (which makes everyone think he is very cool).
But then the war comes too close as his journalist father disappears across the border to cover events happening there. And when the constant battles between his mother, aunt and uncle reach a crisis point, it is only Ruhul who can help Dhiman to go in search of his missing father in a land already torn apart by war . . .
Award-winning author Lesley D. Biswas’s exciting and thought-provoking novel is a vivid depiction of a society in transit and of a boy struggling to find courage.
The Chronicles of Courage series looks at moments and movements in India after independence that have shaped the life of the nation.
Do you struggle with anxiety, people-pleasing, perfectionism, burnout, or relationship difficulties? These aren’t flaws; they may be the quiet footprints of experiences you never had words for.
You’ve spent years asking, ‘What’s wrong with me?’ The kinder question is ‘What happened to me?’ That’s where self-blame ends and self-understanding begins.
Through real-life narratives from Indian families, stories of joint households, comparison, silence, and survival, this book gives shape and language to experiences that have long gone unnamed.
Why India Needs Its Own Conversation About Childhood Trauma
Based on 3,000+ interviews and 14 peer-reviewed studies, the authors show how traumatic childhood experiences surface decades later as anxiety, depression, PTSD, Complex PTSD, and relationship difficulties in adulthood.
Indian parenting has shaped generations of capable adults. But success and suffering can coexist.
Joint-family dynamics. Constant comparisons. Bullying. Emotional neglect. These Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) shape Indian childhoods and have been largely overlooked by global research.
Built on research, not opinion. Grounded in solutions, not just analysis.
• 3,000+ interviews • 14 peer-reviewed studies • 50+ illustrations • Real-life narratives
This book is for you if:
- You struggle with emotional patterns you cannot explain
- You’re a parent who wants to raise resilient children
- You’re a therapist seeking evidence-based tools grounded in Indian family systems
What you’ll discover inside
Section I: The childhood experiences India has never named, and why trauma’s imprint is not limited to body or mind alone
Section II: Practical recovery tools: breathwork, guided visualisation, and the SEE protocol for self-hypnosis
Section III: A clinical framework for mental health professionals: evidence-based psychotherapy tools for trauma in the Indian context
What might it mean to live in a gender-attuned world? Not a perfectly gender-just one, but a world that is receptive—capable of noticing, listening and responding to the quiet ways in which gender shapes lives, choices, institutions and intimacies. This question animates Ashes to Light, an anthology that engages resistance to gender-based prejudice not through proclamation, but through attention to the subtle, everyday forms of violence that often go unnamed.
At a time when conversations on gender are increasingly polarized, Ashes to Light resists slogans and certainties. Instead, it dwells in lived experience—where gender is not always overtly oppressive, but persistently present, shaping exclusions through normalization, condescension, erasure and quiet endurance.
Bringing together reflective personal essays from culture, politics, bureaucracy, law, academia, sports, art, and media, the anthology features film-maker Deepa Mehta on gender and creative choice; social activist Laxmi on socially sanctioned ideals of beauty; actor Rahul Bose on the rise of the Indian women’s rugby team; food scholar Pushpesh Pant on women’s struggles within the Indian kitchen; producer and screenwriter Kiran Rao on marriage and personal history; and former Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on the feminist origins of law within the Indian family, among others.
Ashes to Light does not shout; it nudges. As editor Priyadarshini Bhattacharya reflects, the anthology is anchored in hope—not as optimism, but as practice: a daily, conscious commitment to attentiveness, movement and imagining otherwise.
From the bestselling author of The Autobiography of God
In Women-O-Pause, Lenaa invites you into a year of profound transformation. 2024 sparked a wave of social media attention just as her life shifted dramatically through marriage, relocation, and an unexpected initiation: perimenopause. Rather than viewing it as a decline, she reframed this transition as ‘Womenescence’—a powerful awakening into the next phase of womanhood.
Amid the whirlwind of public visibility and private change, she embarked on a deep exploration of midlife health. Refusing to accept confusion, discomfort, and pharmaceutical dependence, she turned to extensive research, lifestyle changes, and natural healing practices rooted in holistic wellness and ancient traditions.
The result is both memoir and guide—a practical yet deeply reflective blueprint for women navigating perimenopause and menopause with greater awareness, agency, and vitality. Through personal insight and actionable tools, Women-O-Pause challenges conventional narratives while encouraging women to reconnect with the cyclical intelligence of their bodies.
Featuring insights from professional doctors who offer medical insight and clinical perspectives, this book bridges lived experience with modern science. It ultimately reframes menopause not as a problem to be solved, but as a powerful rite of passage.
Loving someone is easy. But keeping them forever? That’s tough.
Vikrant Vayu is just another middle-class guy navigating college life in Delhi till one drunken night, when a dare from his friends changes everything. The challenge is to slide into the DMs of Tara Neer, the college’s reigning Instagram queen with an aesthetic feed and a vibe that screams ‘out of league’.
He’s not expecting anything. But Tara, intrigued by his charm and wit, starts chatting with him. What follows is an unexpected friendship that grows into something real. From cozy campus walks to viral couple reels and late-night chai dates, Vikrant and Tara fall in love.
For a while, it feels perfect. So perfect, they decide to get engaged. Families meet. Rings are discussed. Future feels real.
But love in the age of Instagram comes with receipts. And insecurities don’t disappear just because you say, ‘I trust you.’ Enter the red flags, the toxic patterns and online drama. And when those red flags start waving too loud, you’re forced to ask the question no couple wants to answer: Are we fighting for love—or just fighting?
Days With My Red-Flag Girlfriend is a raw, unfiltered story about modern love—the kind that’s messy, real and impossible to forget.
For fifth-grader Moyna, life is full: school, friends and parents who think the world of her. Her backyard just happens to be a vast mangrove delta, where herons stand as still as secrets, kingfishers flash like sparks over the water and where she has fallen asleep to stories of Bonbibi, the guardian of the forest. Out in the deep jungle, tigers still prowl.
But when her father is suddenly gone, Moyna’s world begins to shift. Held gently by friends, neighbours and family, she learns that she doesn’t have to face it alone—and that laughter can return, little by little.
Down by the Mangroves is a tender story about loving your world, watching it change and discovering that sorrow and joy can share the same space.
In the bustling port of Muciri in the Chera kingdom, thirteen-year-old Kathir believes that the godlike ancient Siddhars belong only in folklore—until he is sent to apprentice under one atop the mist-laced Agastya Mountain. What he finds there is a world where medicine borders on magic, forests guard ancient memories, and time keeps its own secrets.
When a sacred relic vanishes and a student disappears, Kathir, along with his friends Atreya and Nakulan, is pulled into a perilous journey across ancient India. To mend what has been broken, they must unravel prophecies hidden in stars and silence, and confront powers that can twist destiny itself.
Rich with lore, wonder and adventure, The Vaidyar’s School of Medicine and Magic is a story of courage awakening in the unlikeliest of hearts.
