In Arupa Patangia Kalita’s stories, contemporary women in Assam take centerstage. The deeply lyrical and empathetic stories talk about issues like surrogacy, migration, living in a colonial legacy, employment, and history—all of which affect women in the region today.
In Mitra Phukan’s nuanced translation, the region and its people come alive. A deeply compelling and satisfying collection for lovers of contemporary fiction, The Owl, the River, the Valley is a deeply compelling journey into Assam.
In a small backwater village in Kerala, Farook prepares to bury his father in the qabristan behind the mosque. As the rituals proceed, he is filled with memories of his growing years. Memories of the village, of secret lives, sexual proclivities, superstitions—and above all, the slow decaying of his family.
Tales from Qabristan is a strikingly vivid portrayal of a boy trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around him, as he navigates failure, love, life and death. Its language often slipping into magical realism, traversing the realms of both fantasy and reality, the novel reminds us that children are capable of discerning extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand them.
Three bodies found in Kullu,
shot and burnt to a crisp.
Two promising clues.
A missing nurse at the centre of this mystery.
Is she a clear suspect . . . or is there more than meets the eye?
Coming off a fresh suspension, IPS Simone Singh is thrown head first into a bizarre case of serial murders—a killer who is targeting doctors at the Regional Hospital in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. She soon realizes that solving this case is not going to be as easy as she thought, as lying doctors, missing evidence and contradictory eyewitnesses work hard to muddle her case.
Nurse Aadya is on the run. She is running from what she once believed was her salvation, all to protect her baby. Everywhere she turns, she is surrounded by enemies, and Aadya finds herself entrapped in a noose that steadily grows tighter around her neck. It’s only a matter of time before Simone Singh catches up with her.
Can Aadya prove her innocence in time? More importantly, can Simone catch the killer before someone else dies?
The last love, is like the last hanging threads of hope; at times dearer than life. Can it ever be forgotten?
Eylül, a young lawyer, within the turn of a night moved to Istanbul from Germany, after her mother’s sudden drowning. Her beautiful mother left behind a prestigious law firm; and a daunting legacy.
As life pulls Eylül in tethers, the demands of the law firm highlight her unpreparedness, but she can only obsess over her mother’s unconvincing drowning thanks to an old letter which seems to belong to her mother.
What begins is a complex odyssey as she chases after an Izmirli with one thought: did Izmirli cause her mother’s death?
As Eylül delves deeper into the mysteries of her mother’s past and her love life, it becomes unclear, what is Izmirli? Is her mother’s past and Eylül’s present one of the same, has memory and reality merged into one. Each discovery reveals a bigger and darker hole in a seemingly endless tunnel.
Izmirli is a compelling psychological thriller and romance, and a gripping narrative of personal discovery but also an exploration of the complexities of human relationships.
- Highly gripping psychological thriller
- An engaging read with unpredictable twists and turns
- An intense drama transporting away from reality
- Perfect for reads who enjoy books like The Gone Girl and The Silent Patient
- Perfect read for the weekend nights and a reading group
Feluda in the Golden Fortress opens a window to Satyajit Ray’s detective novel called Sonar Kella. First published in 1971 in Bengali, this book was also adapted to screen and was the first film adaptation of Ray’s famous ‘private investigator’ Feluda, which he not only directed but also wrote its screenplay and composed music for it. In the book, Mukul, a young boy, is persistently haunted by incidents from his birth. When his father takes him to a renowned parapsychologist Dr. Hemanga Hazra. H e studies the boy’s drawings and believes the sketches depict the Indian Province of Rajasthan. He also suggests taking the boy there.
Meanwhile, a group of brigands get to know about this boy and believe that he could lead them to a treasure that they have been hunting for a long time. They kidnap Mukul and now, Feluda along within assistant Topse must bring back the boy and solve the mystery. They are joined on road by Lalmohan Ganguly, a pulp writer who goes by the non de plume, Jatayu.
Celebrating 50 years Sonar Kella, the most popular film by Satyajit Ray based on the adventures of detective Feluda, this book opens a window to previously unseen works of Ray from his journal. With rare photographs, interviews and film stills, Feluda in The Golden Fortress is your ultimate Feluda book.
Twilight meets The Vampire Diaries in this new steamy romance.
A human searching for her sister, a grumpy vampire bodyguard in charge of keeping her alive, and a malicious creature hunting them down. What could go wrong?
THE SURVIVOR
The death certificate says my sister died two years ago in the accident, but her body was never found. I was the sole survivor. Then I saw her. Someone lied. Now, I must travel across the country to find answers from a bloodthirsty vampire with one thing on his mind. I will find out the truth. Even if it kills me.
THE PROTECTOR
I didn’t mean for this to happen. I didn’t mean for any of it to happen. Now Raya is here. She is mine, and I must protect her at all costs. If she dies, I die. It doesn’t add up, and it’s all a mess. It’s my job to fix it and find my brother. She knows I’m hiding something, but I’m terrified to tell her the truth.
THE PREDATOR
It’s been years since I had a lead. Now, I have one. I will watch. I will wait. I will strike. He will be mine.
The latest collection of Unni R’s short stories in translation shines with the tone of self-critique so characteristic of his earlier writing, gentle and penetrating at the same time. His world still comprises mostly the rural and peri-urban areas of Kottayam, his birthplace. It emerges through his words as a place with layers of life that lie beyond the merely human—the birds, animals, spirits, Jesus, Satan and even inanimate things have their role and place in it.
The stories feature a whole range of situations and characters, who are forever assailed by an awareness of their own vulnerability. In ‘Malayali Memorial’, the protagonist is a low-lying, wily and seemingly powerless man in a stridently casteist family; the young man in ‘Boy and Girl’ is the weepy sort, yet his powerless tears seem to have the power to soften the resolve of a confident young woman. Further, this collection includes Unni’s experiments with the short story form. Overall, these stories break open the hardened shells of our existence, so that empathy and compassion may find their way out.
Thirty-two and a half hours: It is all the time this world has left.
Kaka has rung the Dhwansnaad, bringing upon earth an evil that will ruin all. Vyas ji has barely managed to save a chosen few. Karan has lost his father. Antima has lost her courage. And no one knows what has become of Jay.
In the midst of this chaos, Kaka’s nefarious plan has started to take root in a most terrible way and the only forces who can stop him are struggling with battles of their own.
Thirty-two and a half hours: Will this world find its saviour?
A gripping thriller by the bestselling author Ahmet Umit, sold 500,000 copies in Turkey.
“That is why I shall begin in the place you thought you had forgotten. Those that forget shall pay the price for forgetting. Those that did not show due respect shall be rewarded with the severest of punishments: those that tore me from their hearts shall have their hearts torn out…”
In 1879, a grand monument of stunning statues was bought from Bergama in Anatolia (Türkiye) to Belgium. These idols from the temple in Pergamon, ancient Izmir in Türkiye, were the last relics of the complex Ottoman mythology. Until one day, all legends began to come alive…
A brilliant assassin, inspired by the Gods depicted in the reliefs of temples in Pergamon, a poet who writes epics in Zeus’ name in human blood on parchments. A mortal that despises mankind, wishing to become a God. And a child preparing to climb Olympus to confront his father. Are all at the center of a chaotic, adventures chase across Europe and the Mediterranean, threatening to uncover the veiled darkness of mankind, in the pursuit of their own truths, which could end the world as we know it.
As Yildiz Karasum, a Turkish detective, and her mysterious assistant, Tobias Becker, investigates the suspicious murders, they uncover secrets that could destroy the city that stubbornly clings on to its diversity without forgetting its past. And just as they seem to grasp the core of the missing and imperfect pieces of the puzzle, a new name is revealed…
And a truth, that is beyond the reach of any mortal justice.
Because when the Gods demand a sacrifice, there is always one to be chosen….
“यह काल की गति है या कर्मों का फल,” अनुपमा की माँ ने अपने पति कालाचार्य से कहा, “कि अनुपमा का अपहरण कर लिया गया है। अपहरण की योजना में रूपमती का हाथ स्पष्ट ही दिखता है। साथ ही उसके पीछे गर्द भिल्ल की शक्ति और रामभट्ट की कुटिल नीति भी अवश्य है।”
प्राचीन उज्जैन के व्यसनी नरेश गर्द भिल्ल ने प्रजापुत्री अनुपमा का अपहरण करा उसे अपने महल में डाल लिया, परिणामस्वरूप ऐसा भयंकर विस्फोट हुआ, जिससे उज्जैन नगरी की ईंट-से-ईंट बज उठी। फिर उदय हुआ उस पराक्रमी सम्राट विक्रमादित्य का जिसके नाम से आज तक विक्रम संवत चला आ रहा है। यह एक सशक्त घटना-प्रधान ऐतिहासिक उपन्यास है।
