The Adhikarathil family had a distinguished history. It prospered both in terms of wealth and eminence, acquiring the status of royalty in Malabar, Kerala, until the birth of a child named Eranimos shocked everyone. Unlike his fair-skinned, Christian forebears, Eranimos was born dark-skinned, leading to controversial conjectures about his lineage.
Blackened tells the story of its protagonist’s quest to discover the truth behind his dark skin and caste identity. But weaved into this personal tale are multiple layers of Kerala’s social and political histories—its caste conflicts, its massive waves of conversion and migration, its clashing belief systems, and its rural and urban divide.
Originally published as Karikkottakkary in Malayalam, Blackened is an impactful bildungsroman that covers the arc of a conflicted life, and shows us how family histories are tied into the larger historical currents that form communities and shape destinies.
Dive into the hilarious world of P. G. Wodehouse with a beautiful box set containing six of the most-loved novels from Britain’s greatest comedy writer.
Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in ― Evelyn Waugh
Titles in this boxset:
THE INIMITABLE JEEVES
Meddling Aunt Agatha wants to see Bertie married, and nothing will stop her from playing matchmaker. The problem? Bertie has no plans to settle down. Only one man can save the day – the inimitable Jeeves.
JOY IN THE MORNING
The story is another adventure of Bertie Wooster and his resourceful valet Jeeves. Bertie is persuaded to brave the home of his fearsome Aunt Agatha and her husband Lord Worplesdon, knowing that his former fiancée, the beautiful and formidably intellectual Lady Florence Craye will also be in attendance.
SOMETHING FRESH
Welcome to the world of the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son and his long-suffering secretary. This story is a comic caricature of English aristocratic life and the American aristocracy of wealth.
BLANDINGS CASTLE AND ELSEWHERE
A collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse.
UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME
Uncle Fred is one of the hottest earls who ever donned a coronet. Or as he crisply puts it, ‘There are no limits, literally none, to what I can achieve in the springtime.’
THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS
In a plot that swiftly becomes rife with mishaps, it is Jeeves who must extract his master from trouble. Again. Also a sequel to Right Ho, Jeeves.
A new, twisting thriller from the multi-million selling sensation and #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Teacher and The Housemaid Series
She’s looking for the perfect man. He’s looking for the perfect victim.
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can’t shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.
Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He’s charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.
Then the brutal murder of a young woman―the latest in a string of deaths across the coast―confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim…
A dark story about obsession and the things we’ll do for love, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest…
For some people, home is nowhere. They feel out of place—they are adrift, the stranger in the crowd. It’s as if they are forever walking around in shoes that don’t fit.
Can they find a home, imperfect as it may be? Sometimes, all it takes is a place at the other end of the world—or a person. Nita, a teacher in Kerala, is desperate for a better-paying job and accepts one in Dubai. It is the 1990s, and Dubai is just becoming a boom town. Everything is changing. But Nita struggles to adjust to the city as an immigrant. Her job as a live-in tutor for a young girl puts her in an unfamiliar, servile role with a wealthy family. Nita starts telling the child’s mother a story from ancient India, where Darius, a sailor, arrives at an Indian port seeking his fortune. As she tells this tale, making it up as she goes, she finds that she’s no longer alone.
This is a two-headed story—the narrators Nita and Darius are nested inside each other like Russian dolls. They are both outsiders in unfamiliar places. They make dangerous choices that take them to the breaking point. And as Nita feels her safety unravel, it does for Darius as well.
सच्चिदानंद हीरानंद वात्स्यायन ’अज्ञेय’ द्वारा 1943 ई० में नई कविता के प्रणयन हेतु सात कवियों का एक मंडल बनाकर तार सप्तक का संकलन एवं संपादन किया गया। चौथा सप्तक अज्ञेय द्वारा संपादित हिंदी के 7 कवियों की कविताओं का संग्रह है। इस काव्य संग्रह का प्रथम प्रकाशन 1979 ईस्वी में हुआ था। नाम के आधार पर यह पुस्तक अज्ञेय द्वारा संपादित तीन सप्तकों—तार सप्तक, दूसरा सप्तक तथा तीसरा सप्तक की सात कवियों की कविताओं के संग्रह के क्रम से जुड़ती है। इसमें अवधेश कुमार, राजकुमार कुम्भज, स्वदेश भारती, नन्दकिशोर आचार्य, सुमन राजे, श्रीराम वर्मा, राजेन्द्र किशोर की रचनाएँ संकलित हैं।
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
*A Classic Fairytale Series*
Read It Yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird’s best-selling series. This is a series of character stories and traditional tales, written in a simple way for children who are learning to read. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.
Each Read It Yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.
Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.
Please note that the following individual books as per original ISBN and cover image in this listing shall be dispatched collectively.
This box contains 8 graded storybooks from Level 3. It is perfect for children who can read short, simple sentences with help.
This Tuck-Box includes below titles:
1. The Elves and the Shoemaker
2. Jack and the Beanstalk
3. Hansel and Gretel
4. Rapunzel
5. Puss in Boots
6. Thumbelina
7. The Jungle Book
8. Aladdin
Level 3 Read It Yourself Tuck-Box is suitable for children who are developing reading confidence and stamina, and are eager to start reading longer stories with a wider vocabulary.
*A Classic Fairytale Series*
Read It Yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird’s best-selling series. This is a series of character stories and traditional tales, written in a simple way for children who are learning to read. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.
Each Read It Yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.
Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.
Please note that the following individual books as per original ISBN and cover image in this listing shall be dispatched collectively.
This box contains 10 graded storybooks from Level 2. It is perfect for children who can read short, simple sentences with help.
This Tuck-Box includes below titles:
1. The Gingerbread Man
2. Town Mouse and Country Mouse
3. The Three Little Pigs
4. Chicken Licken
5. Little Red Riding Hood
6. Sly Fox and Red Hen
7. Sleeping Beauty
8. Beauty and the Beast
9. Rumpelstiltskin
10. The Princess and the Frog
Level 2 Read It Yourself Tuck-Box is ideal for children who have received some initial reading instruction and can read short, simple sentences with help.
*A Classic Fairytale Series*
Read It Yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird’s best-selling series. This is a series of character stories and traditional tales, written in a simple way for children who are learning to read. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.
Each Read It Yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.
Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.
Please note that the following individual books as per original ISBN and cover image in this listing shall be dispatched collectively.
This box contains 10 graded storybooks from Level 1. It is perfect for children who are ready to take their first steps in reading.
This Tuck-Box includes below titles:
1. Little Red Hen
2. The Ugly Duckling
3. Goldilocks and the Three Bears
4. The Enormous Turnip
5. The Emperor’s New Clothes
6. The Big Pancake
7. The Magic Porridge Pot
8. Cinderella
9. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
10. The Princess and the Pea
Level 1 Read It Yourself Tuck-Box is suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words.
Set in the stately, forest-clad hills of Malnad in the Western Ghats during the late nineteenth century,
Bride in the Hills tells the love stories of young men and women aspiring for a life of freedom, dignity and fulfilment in marriage within a caste-ridden social order. Kuvempu’s multi-centred text, with its organic weave of varied narrative strands, much like the Mahabharata, is epic in substance and style. The novel, which is rooted in the regional realities of Malnad, is yet another example of the diversity of modern Indian literature.
Kuvempu (1904–94) chronicles the emergence of a vibrant and complex rural society caught between manipulative colonial norms and discriminatory native practices. Bringing in the distinct experiences of the Shudra lifeworld, he led Kannada literature to great heights with his profound and poetic writing. Kuvempu’s cosmic vision of vishva manava (universal man), which transcends narrow, sectarian boundaries, constitutes a precious legacy in the ethical traditions of the world.
This epic novel with the sweep of a Tolstoy classic enacts its mission statement: ‘Here, nobody is important; nobody is unimportant; nothing is insignificant!’ with brilliance, energy and imaginative power.
